Table 1.
Demographics, by surgical subspecialty
| Demographic variables | Specialty | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiothoracic (n = 15), n (%) | General surgery (n = 249), n (%) | Orthopaedic (n = 143), n (%) | Otolaryngology (n = 72), n (%) | Plastic surgery (n = 37), n (%) | Urology (n = 74), n (%) | Neurosurgery (n = 33), n (%) | Paediatric surgery (n = 17), n (%) | Vascular surgery (n = 24), n (%) | Total† (n = 683), n (%) | |
| Gender | ||||||||||
| Male | 13 (93) | 187 (76) | 132 (93) | 51 (71) | 33 (89) | 57 (77) | 27 (82) | 12 (71) | 19 (79) | 547 (81) |
| Female | 1 (7.1) | 55 (22) | 9 (6.3) | 19 (26) | 4 (11) | 16 (22) | 5 (15) | 5 (29) | 5 (21) | 121 (18) |
| Prefer not to say | 0 | 4 (1.6) | 1 (0.7) | 2 (2.8) | 0 | 1 (1.4) | 1 (3.0) | 0 | 0 | 9 (1.3) |
| Age | ||||||||||
| 25–35 | 2 (13) | 8 (3.2) | 3 (2.1) | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 2 (2.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 (2.3) |
| 36–45 | 3 (20) | 65 (26) | 19 (13) | 21 (29) | 8 (22) | 18 (24) | 7 (21) | 2 (12) | 4 (17) | 148 (22) |
| 46–55 | 1 (6.7) | 89 (36) | 48 (34) | 26 (36) | 16 (43) | 33 (45) | 13 (39) | 5 (29) | 9 (38) | 245 (36) |
| 56–65 | 6 (40) | 57 (23) | 44 (31) | 17 (24) | 8 (22) | 13 (18) | 6 (18) | 7 (41) | 9 (38) | 175 (26) |
| Over 65 | 3 (20) | 29 (12) | 29 (20) | 7 (9.7) | 5 (14) | 8 (11) | 7 (21) | 3 (18) | 2 (8.3) | 97 (14) |
| Main work location | ||||||||||
| Metropolitan hospital | 14 (93) | 174 (71) | 98 (71) | 53 (78) | 31 (84) | 51 (72) | 26 (81) | 16 (94) | 19 (79) | 496 (75) |
| Regional hospital | 1 (6.7) | 52 (21) | 35 (25) | 13 (19) | 6 (16) | 19 (27) | 6 (19) | 1 (5.9) | 5 (21) | 141 (21) |
| Rural hospital | 0 | 19 (7.8) | 5 (3.6) | 2 (2.9) | 0 | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 (4.1) |
| Public and/or private sector | ||||||||||
| Public sector only | 3 (21) | 39 (16) | 11 (7.7) | 2 (2.8) | 1 (2.7) | 1 (1.4) | 2 (6.3) | 7 (41) | 2 (8.3) | 69 (10) |
| Private sector only | 2 (14) | 31 (13) | 53 (37) | 16 (22) | 10 (27) | 12 (17) | 12 (38) | 0 | 7 (29) | 146 (22) |
| Both public and private sector | 9 (64) | 178 (72) | 79 (55) | 54 (75) | 26 (70) | 59 (82) | 18 (56) | 10 (59) | 15 (63) | 460 (68) |
| State | ||||||||||
| ACT | 1 (7.7) | 0 | 2 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (3.2) | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.6) |
| NSW | 2 (15) | 64 (28) | 34 (25) | 20 (30) | 14 (40) | 15 (21) | 8 (26) | 3 (19) | 5 (21) | 171 (27) |
| NT | 0 | 4 (1.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.6) |
| QLD | 1 (7.7) | 36 (16) | 24 (18) | 15 (23) | 5 (14) | 11 (15) | 7 (23) | 3 (19) | 3 (13) | 107 (17) |
| SA | 0 | 27 (12) | 15 (11) | 6 (9.1) | 3 (8.6) | 7 (9.7) | 1 (3.2) | 1 (6.3) | 0 | 60 (9.4) |
| TAS | 0 | 4 (1.8) | 2 (1.5) | 1 (1.5) | 0 | 2 (2.8) | 2 (6.5) | 1 (6.3) | 0 | 12 (1.9) |
| VIC | 8 (62) | 73 (32) | 52 (39) | 19 (29) | 11 (31) | 29 (40) | 11 (35) | 5 (31) | 14 (58) | 228 (36) |
| WA | 1 (7.7) | 18 (8.0) | 6 (4.4) | 5 (7.6) | 2 (5.7) | 8 (11) | 1 (3.2) | 3 (19) | 2 (8.3) | 49 (7.7) |
†
n = 19 not included in specialty columns.