Table 1.
Demoraphics and Social Media Presence.
| Total (n = 145) | Social Media Presence |
Institution |
Graduation Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n = 92) | No (n = 53) | γp-value | Academic (n = 26) | Private (n = 119) | γp-value | <2000 (n = 75) | ≥2000 (n = 70) | γp-value | ||
| Age | 52.3 ± 11.6 | 51.7 ± 10.4 | 53.4 ± 13.3 | 0.38 | 47.1 ± 11.2 | 53.4 ± 11.4 | 0.01 | – | – | – |
| Degree | γ0.76 | γ0.69 | 0.05 | |||||||
| MD | 133 (91.7) | 85 (92.4) | 48 (90.6) | 25 (96.2) | 108 (90.8) | 72 (96.0) | 61 (87.1) | |||
| DO | 12 (8.3) | 7 (7.6) | 5 (9.4) | 1 (3.9) | 11 (9.2) | 3 (4.0) | 9 (12.9) | |||
| Institution | 0.26 | – | 0.05 | |||||||
| Academic | 26 (17.9) | 19 (20.7) | 7 (13.2) | – | – | 9 (12.0) | 17 (24.3) | |||
| Private | 119 (82.1) | 73 (79.4) | 46 (86.8) | – | – | 66 (88.0) | 53 (75.7) | |||
| Graduation Year | 0.34 | 0.04 | – | |||||||
| 1969–1985 | 26 (17.9) | 14 (15.2) | 12 (22.6) | 4 (15.4) | 22 (18.5) | – | – | |||
| 1986–1995 | 35 (24.1) | 20 (21.7) | 15 (28.3) | 2 (7.7) | 33 (27.7) | – | – | |||
| 1996–2005 | 41 (28.3) | 30 (32.6) | 11 (20.8) | 7 (26.9) | 34 (28.6) | – | – | |||
| 2006–2017 | 43 (29.7) | 28 (30.4) | 15 (28.3) | 13 (50.0) | 30 (25.2) | – | – | |||
| Website | γ0.67 | γ0.04 | γ 0.15 | |||||||
| None | 5 (3.5) | 2 (2.2) | 3 (5.7) | 0 | 5 (4.2) | 4 (5.3) | 1 (1.4) | |||
| Institution | 99 (68.3) | 62 (67.4) | 37 (69.8) | 24 (92.3) | 75 (63.0) | 45 (60.0) | 54 (77.1) | |||
| Personal | 7 (4.8) | 5 (5.4) | 2 (3.8) | 0 | 7 (5.9) | 5 (6.7) | 2 (2.9) | |||
| Both | 34 (23.5) | 23 (25.0) | 11 (20.8) | 2 (7.7) | 32 (26.9) | 21 (28.0) | 13 (18.6) | |||
| Any Social Media? | – | 0.26 | 0.37 | |||||||
| Yes | 92 (63.5) | – | – | 19 (73.1) | 73 (61.3) | 45 (60.0) | 47 (67.1) | |||
| No | 53 (36.6) | – | – | 7 (26.9) | 46 (38.7) | 30 (40.0) | 23 (32.9) | |||
| – | 0.15 | 0.65 | ||||||||
| Yes | 45 (31.0) | – | – | 5 (19.2) | 40 (33.6) | 22 (29.3) | 23 (32.9) | |||
| No | 100 (69.0) | – | – | 21 (80.8) | 79 (66.4) | 53 (70.7) | 47 (67.1) | |||
| – | γ0.03 | 0.13 | ||||||||
| Yes | 15 (10.3) | – | – | 6 (23.1) | 9 (7.6) | 5 (6.7) | 10 (14.3) | |||
| No | 130 (89.7) | – | – | 20 (76.9) | 110 (92.4) | 70 (93.3) | 60 (85.7) | |||
| – | γ 0.45 | γ 0.61 | ||||||||
| Yes | 3 (2.1) | – | – | 1 (3.9) | 2 (1.7) | 1 (1.3) | 2 (2.9) | |||
| No | 142 (97.9) | – | – | 25 (96.2) | 117 (98.3) | 74 (98.7) | 68 (97.1) | |||
| YouTube | – | 0.27 | 0.94 | |||||||
| Yes | 75 (51.7) | – | – | 16 (61.5) | 59 (49.6) | 39 (52.0) | 36 (51.4) | |||
| No | 70 (48.3) | – | – | 10 (38.5) | 60 (50.4) | 36 (48.0) | 34 (48.6) | |||
γFischer-Exact tests were used in place of chi-square tests where >25% of cells have expected counts <5 in order to obtain a p-value; (MD) Medical Doctorate.
(DO) Doctor Osteopathic Medicine.