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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018 Aug 23;56(5):719–726.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.08.008

Table 1:

Characteristics of Students Participating in the “Surgery Hurts” Educational Session at University of Wisconsin

Student Characteristics
 Average age at matriculation 25
 Percent female 48%
 Under-represented in medicine* 13%
Specialty at Graduation
 Surgery or surgical sub-specialty 19%
 Internal Medicine 18%
 Family Medicine 14%
 Pediatrics 11%
 Emergency Medicine 10%
 Obstetrics and Gynecology 7%
 Anesthesiology 7%
 Radiology and Rad Onc 5%
 Psychiatry 4%
 Dermatology 2%
 Pathology 2%
 Neurology 2%
*

includes students who are African American, Hispanic/Latino/a, Native American/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese, or Laotian