Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of trainees stratified by continent
| Total (n = 770) |
North America (n = 205) |
Europe (n = 323) |
Australia/New Zealand (n = 40) |
Asia (n = 90) |
South America (n = 99) |
Africa (n = 13) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean age, y (standard error) | 32.6 (.2) | 32.4 (.2) | 32.4 (.3) | 33.0 (.7) | 33.4 (.8) | 32.3 (.5) | 36.6 (1.5) | .11 |
| Male | 417 (56.9) | 115 (59.9) | 157 (50.5) | 26 (66.7) | 67 (80.7) | 45 (46.4) | 7 (63.6) | <.001 |
| Specialty | <.001 | |||||||
| Adult GI | 603 (78.3) | 152 (74.2) | 274 (84.8) | 32 (80.0) | 81 (90.0) | 55 (55.6) | 9 (69.2) | |
| Internal medicine | 24 (3.1) | 1 (.5) | 15 (4.6) | 1 (2.5) | 2 (2.2) | 3 (2.0) | 2 (15.4) | |
| Pediatric GI | 76 (9.9) | 52 (25.4) | 6 (1.9) | 0 (.0) | 6 (6.7) | 12 (12.1) | 0 (.0) | |
| Surgery | 59 (7.7) | 0 (.0) | 27 (8.4) | 7 (17.5) | 1 (1.1) | 22 (22.2) | 2 (15.4) | |
| Other | 8 (1.0) | 0 (.0) | 1 (.3) | 0 (.0) | 0 (.0) | 7 (7.1) | 0 (.0) | |
| Mean years of training (standard error) | 2.7 (.1) | 2.0 (.1) | 3.2 (.1) | 1.9 (.2) | 2.5 (.3) | 2.6 (.3) | 4.8 (1.5) | <.001 |
| Advanced endoscopy-focused training (vs general GI) | 135 (17.5) | 9 (4.9) | 57 (17.7) | 7 (17.5) | 22 (24.4) | 35 (35.4) | 5 (38.5) | <.001 |
Values are n (%) unless otherwise defined. All percentages are based on the number of respondents per question.