Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of Brazilian infectious diseases specialists, 2015.

	ID (n)	ID (%)	95% CI		OS Percent
			Lower	Upper
Gender
Female	1737	57.0	55.3	58.8	40.5
Male	1308	43.0	41.2	44.7	59.9
Total	3045	100
Age (years)
≤29	126	4.1	3.4	4.8	2.4
30–34	631	20.7	19.1	22.2	14.8
35–39	607	19.9	18.5	21.4	15.5
40–44	444	14.6	13.3	15.9	13.1
45–49	357	11.7	10.6	12.9	12.7
50–54	365	12.0	10.8	13.2	11.5
55–59	271	8.9	8.0	9.9	11.1
60–64	137	4.5	3.8	5.2	9.6
65–69	63	2.1	1.6	2.6	4.9
≥70	44	1.4	1.1	1.9	4.4
Total	3045	100
Type of medical school IDs graduated froma
Public	2017	71.6	70.0	73.3
Private	799	28.4	26.7	30.0
Total	2816	100
Medical residency training in ID
No	579	19.0	17.7	20.3
Yes	2466	81.0	79.7	82.3
Total	3045	100
Interval between M.D. graduation and completion of residency training (years)
≤3	555	22.5	22.5	26.1
4–10	1629	66.1	69.3	73.3
≥10	282	11.4	7.6	15.3
Total	2466	100
Brazilian Region where residency training was completed
Northern	128	5.2	4.4	6.0
Northeastern	301	12.2	10.9	13.5
Southeastern	1746	70.8	68.9	72.5
Southern	174	7.1	6.0	8.1
Center-western	117	4.7	3.9	5.6
Total	2466	100
Time since completion of residency training (years)
<2	395	16.0	14.7	17.6
2–5	438	17.8	16.2	19.2
5–10	569	23.1	21.3	24.7
≥10	1064	43.1	41.1	45.1
Total	2466	100

M.D.G., MD graduation; OS, other specialist medical doctors; ID, infectious diseases specialists; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.

^aMissing data = 229.