Table 3 Graduates' clinical competency self-assessment by gender, age-group, experience, hospital, specialty and location
Variables | Assessment | df | (χ2 ) | p-value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
V.G | Good | Inadequate | Total | ||||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | ||||
Gender | |||||||||||
Male | 10 | 25.0 | 25 | 62.5 | 5 | 12.5 | 40 | 38.1 | 1 | 0.584 | 0.445 |
Female | 22 | 33.8 | 35 | 53.8 | 8 | 12.3 | 65 | 61.9 | |||
Total | 32 | 30.5 | 60 | 57.1 | 13 | 12.4 | 105 | 100.0 | |||
Age group | |||||||||||
25-27 | 8 | 25.0 | 22 | 68.8 | 2 | 6.2 | 32 | 30.5 | 2 | 0.015 | .993 |
28-30 | 13 | 31.0 | 24 | 57.1 | 5 | 11.9 | 42 | 40.0 | |||
>30 | 11 | 35.5 | 14 | 45.2 | 6 | 19.4 | 31 | 29.5 | |||
Experience (years) | |||||||||||
<2 | 5 | 23.8 | 15 | 71.7 | 1 | 4.8 | 21 | 20.0 | 2 | 0.037 | 0.982 |
2-3 | 11 | 27.5 | 25 | 62.5 | 4 | 10.0 | 40 | 38.1 | |||
4 | 16 | 36.4 | 20 | 45.5 | 8 | 18.2 | 44 | 41.9 | |||
Hospital | |||||||||||
Public | 16 | 26.2 | 36 | 59.0 | 9 | 14.8 | 61 | 58.1 | 2 | 3.005 | 0.224 |
Private | 10 | 30.3 | 20 | 60.6 | 3 | 9.1 | 33 | 31.4 | |||
Both | 6 | 54.5 | 4 | 36.4 | 1 | 9.1 | 11 | 10.5 | |||
Specialty | |||||||||||
Medicine | 16 | 32.0 | 29 | 58.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 50 | 47.6 | 3 | 0.568 | 0.904 |
Surgery | 6 | 27.3 | 12 | 54.5 | 4 | 18.2 | 22 | 21.0 | |||
Pediatrics | 6 | 27.3 | 14 | 63.6 | 2 | 9.1 | 22 | 21.0 | |||
Gyn & Obs | 4 | 36.4 | 5 | 45.5 | 2 | 18.2 | 11 | 10.5 | |||
Location | |||||||||||
Inpatient | 32 | 66.7 | 16 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 48 | 45.7 | 1 | 2.092 | 0.148 |
Outpatient | 0 | 0.0 | 44 | 77.2 | 13 | 22.8 | 57 | 54.3 | |||