Table 1.
Surgical specialty and year of training of survey respondents
| Characteristic | Staff n = 40 |
Residents n = 80 |
|---|---|---|
| Specialty | ||
| General surgery | 18/81 (22%) | 28/88 (32%) |
| Vascular surgery | 1/19 (5%) | 9/18 (50%) |
| Urological surgery | 3/30 (10%) | 9/28 (32%) |
| Thoracic surgery | 2/8 (25%) | 3/5 (60%) |
| Cardiac surgery | 3/25 (12%) | 0/10 (0%) |
| Neurosurgery | 2/33 (6%) | 17/35 (49%) |
| Orthopedic surgery | 8/62 (13%) | 0/50 (0%) |
| Plastic surgery | 3/35 (9%) | 14/29 (48%) |
| Year of training | ||
| PGY1 | — | 13 |
| PGY2 | — | 17 |
| PGY3 | — | 23 |
| PGY4 | — | 12 |
| PGY5 | — | 15 |
PGY = postgraduate year.