TABLE 6.
Demographic variables | Overall competence in procedural skills* |
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Anaesthesia | ENT | Surgery | O&G | Orthopaedics | Medicine | Paediatrics | Ophthalmology | Dermatology | Urology | |
Age | 0.03 | 0.57 | 0.86 | 0.65 | 0.72 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 0.39 | 0.53 | 0.87 |
Gender | 0.66 | 0.5 | 0.03 | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 1 | 0.88 | 0.18 | 0.005 |
Years of experience | 0.41 | 0.97 | 0.67 | 0.09 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.2 | 0.78 | 0.02 | 0.12 |
Discipline (where spent most of the time) | 0.05 | 0.85 | 0.62 | 0.39 | 0.24 | 0.07 | 0.44 | 0.54 | 0.18 | 0.89 |
Undergraduate study (in SA or outside SA) | 0.77 | 0.31 | 0.23 | 0.34 | 0.52 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.47 | 0.75 | 0.44 |
Family medicine training | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.69 | 0.26 | 0.59 | 0.87 | 0.91 | 0.6 | 0.74 | 0.28 |
Current hospital | 0.01 | 0.19 | 0.15 | 0.015 | 0.16 | 0.94 | 0.78 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.26 |
ENT, ear, nose and throat; O&G, obstetrics and gynaecology; SA, South Africa.
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