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Table 1 Characteristics and global health experience during/since fellowship of the overall sample (n=521), overall and by intensity of recent global health engagement

From: Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: a mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders

   

Reporting global health experience during/since fellowship (n=229)

 

Total sample

Overall

Time dedicated to GH in the past year

     

None

1-10% time

>10% time

 
 

N

%

%

p-valueφ

 

Row %

 

p-valueΘ

 

521

100%

44%

 

20%

53%

27%

 

Demographics

Graduation Year

   

<0.01

   

0.25

Before 1980

75

14%

64

 

21

60

19

 

1980-1989

101

19%

61

 

26

52

23

 

1990-1999

111

21%

53

 

19

44

37

 

2000-2009

161

31%

29

 

15

61

24

 

After 2009

73

14%

19

 

7

50

43

 

Gender

   

<0.01

   

0.47

Female

208

40%

36

 

24

50

26

 

Male

313

60%

50

 

17

55

28

 

Professional characteristics

Clinical Specialty

 

0.25

   

0.96

Internal medicine and subspecialties

241

46%

48

 

18

54

28

 

Pediatrics and subspecialties

97

19%

44

 

19

56

26

 

Surgery and subspecialties

51

10%

37

 

21

58

21

 

All other specialties

132

25%

39

 

24

47

29

 

Primary Professional Setting

  

0.02

   

0.23

University

378

73%

41

 

21

57

22

 

Public sector

50

10%

50

 

24

48

28

 

Private sector

54

10%

44

 

13

46

42

 

Foundation, NGO, or other

39

8%

67

 

15

42

42

 

Primary Professional Activity

  

<0.01

   

0.26

Research

271

52%

41

 

20

52

29

 

Clinical

72

14%

28

 

20

65

15

 

Education

45

9%

58

 

31

58

12

 

Administration, policy, other

133

26%

53

 

15

51

34

 
  1. φ p-value for global health experience since fellowship (vs. no experience).
  2. Θ p-value for professional time allocated to global health among those with global health experience during/since fellowship.