Table 5 Expert assessment of medical graduate's clinical competency 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 | 12 | 30.0 | 20 | 50.0 | 8 | 20.0 | 40 | 38.1 | 1 | 4.261 | .04* |
Female | 16 | 24.6 | 23 | 35.4 | 26 | 40.0 | 65 | 61.9 | |||
Total | 28 | 26.7 | 43 | 41.0 | 34 | 32.4 | 105 | 100.0 | |||
Age group | |||||||||||
25-27 | 7 | 21.9 | 12 | 37.5 | 13 | 40.6 | 32 | 30.5 | 2 | 7.413 | .03* |
28-30 | 10 | 23.8 | 14 | 33.3 | 18 | 42.9 | 42 | 40.0 | |||
>30 | 11 | 35.5 | 17 | 54.8 | 3 | 9.7 | 31 | 29.5 | |||
Experience (years) | |||||||||||
<2 | 4 | 19.0 | 7 | 33.3 | 10 | 47.6 | 21 | 20.0 | 2 | 3.121 | .21 |
2-3 | 11 | 27.5 | 16 | 40.0 | 13 | 32.5 | 40 | 38.1 | |||
4 | 13 | 29.5 | 20 | 45.5 | 11 | 25.0 | 44 | 41.9 | |||
Hospital | |||||||||||
Public | 14 | 23.0 | 24 | 39.3 | 23 | 37.7 | 61 | 58.1 | 2 | 7.614 | .02* |
Private | 8 | 24.2 | 14 | 42.4 | 11 | 33.3 | 33 | 31.4 | |||
Both | 6 | 54.5 | 5 | 45.5 | 0 | .0 | 11 | 10.5 | |||
Specialty | |||||||||||
Medicine | 12 | 24.0 | 23 | 46.0 | 15 | 30.0 | 50 | 47.6 | 3 | 1.825 | .61 |
Surgery | 5 | 22.7 | 10 | 45.5 | 7 | 31.8 | 22 | 21.0 | |||
Pediatrics | 4 | 18.2 | 10 | 45.5 | 8 | 36.4 | 22 | 21.0 | |||
Gyn+Obs | 7 | 63.6 | 0 | .0 | 4 | 36.4 | 11 | 10.5 | |||
Location | |||||||||||
Inpatient | 10 | 20.8 | 18 | 37.5 | 20 | 41.7 | 48 | 45.7 | 1 | 3.459 | .063 |
Outpatient | 18 | 31.6 | 25 | 43.9 | 14 | 24.6 | 57 | 54.3 | |||