Table 1.
Characteristics of Academic Rheumatologists in the United States
| Overall (N = 941) |
Men (N = 551) |
Women (N = 390) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Rank (N, %) | < 0.001 | |||
| Professor | 249 (26.7) | 200 (36.8) | 49 (12.6) | |
| Associate | 220 (23.6) | 152 (28.0) | 68 (17.5) | |
| Assistant | 387 (41.5) | 171 (31.5) | 216 (55.5) | |
| Instructor | 76 (8.2) | 20 (3.7) | 56 (14.4) | |
| Faculty at Top 20 Med School (N, %) | 320 (38.1) | 184 (35.9) | 136 (41.6) | 0.096 |
| Age (Mean, SD) | 52.3 (12.3) | 56.8 (11.9) | 46.0 (9.7) | < 0.001 |
| Age groups, y (N, %) | < 0.001 | |||
| Age <40 | 165 (18.4) | 41 (7.8) | 124 (33.5) | |
| Age 40–44 | 132 (14.7) | 64 (12.1) | 68 (18.4) | |
| Age 45–49 | 96 (10.7) | 52 (9.9) | 44 (11.9) | |
| Age 50–54 | 106 (11.8) | 54 (10.2) | 52 (14.1) | |
| Age 55–59 | 121 (13.5) | 79 (15.0) | 42 (11.4) | |
| Age 60–64 | 127 (14.1) | 99 (18.8) | 28 (7.6) | |
| Age 65+ | 151 (16.8) | 139 (26.3) | 12 (3.2) | |
| Year Since Residency (Mean, SD) | 22.0 (12.9) | 26.6 (13.0) | 15.7 (9.8) | < 0.001 |
| FACR (N, %) | 507 (53.9) | 300 (54.5) | 207 (53.1) | 0.678 |
| Publications | ||||
| Total (Mean, SD) | 20.6 (33.7) | 26.4 (39.4) | 12.4 (20.8) | < 0.001 |
| First or Last Author (Mean, SD) | 14.0 (28.9) | 18.4 (33.9) | 7.8 (17.9) | < 0.001 |
| Any Publication (N, %) | 739 (78.5) | 449 (81.5) | 290 (74.4) | 0.009 |
| National Institutes of Health grants | ||||
| NIH Grant Count (Mean, SD) | 1.3 (3.9) | 1.7 (4.4) | 0.8 (3.0) | < 0.001 |
| Any NIH Grant (N, %) | 164 (17.4) | 117 (21.2) | 47 (12.1) | < 0.001 |
| Clinical trials* | ||||
| Total Clinical Trials (Mean, SD) | 0.2 (0.8) | 0.2 (0.8) | 0.2 (0.8) | 0.676 |
| Any Clinical Trial (N, %) | 76 (8.1) | 50 (9.1) | 26 (6.7) | 0.182 |
FACR, Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology
*
Listed as principal investigator for registered studies on clinicaltrials.gov.