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Table 2 Specialty courses included in the survey

From: The resident-as-teacher educational challenge: a needs assessment survey at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Faculty of Medicine

Specialty Course

Number of residents (%)

Family Medicine

1,219 (24.1)

Pediatrics

406 (8.0)

Internal Medicine

327 (6.5)

Gynecology and Obstetrics

325 (6.4)

Orthopedics

262 (5.2)

General Surgery

231 (4.6)

Anesthesiology

177 (3.5)

Cardiology

164 (3.2)

Psychiatry

144 (2.8)

Radiology

124 (2.4)

Ophthalmology

120 (2.4)

Rehabilitation Medicine

93 (1.8)

Otolaryngology

78 (1.5)

Dermatology

77 (1.5)

Critical Care Medicine

70 (1.4)

Allergy and clinical immunology

67 (1.3)

Neurosurgery

62 (1.2)

Neonatology

62 (1.2)

Urology

56 (1.1)

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

51 (1.0)

Oncologic surgery

49 (0.97)

Pediatric Surgery

44 (0.87)

Epidemiology

41 (0.81)

Pathology

40 (0.79)

Audiology and foniatrics

40 (0.79)

Gastroenterology

40 (0.79)

Infectology

33 (0.65)

Neurology

32 (0.63)

Neumology

32 (0.63)

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

31 (0.61)

Medical oncology

30 (0.59)

Pediatric cardiology

28 (0.55)

Hematology

28 (0.55)

Nephrology

27 (0.53)

Work medicine

26 (0.51)

Rheumatology

24 (0.47)

Cardiothoracic surgery

24 (0.47)

Angiology and vascular surgery

23 (0.45)

Medical genetics

22 (0.43)

Pediatric psychiatry

21 (0.41)

Reproductive medicine

19 (0.38)

Forensic medicine

17 (0.34)

Coloproctology

17 (0.34)

Endocrinology

16 (0.32)

Pediatric critical care medicine

15 (0.30)

Pediatric allergy and immunology

15 (0.30)

Nuclear medicine

14 (0.28)

Pediatric pulmonology

14 (0.28)

Pediatric neurology

14 (0.28)

Pediatric gastroenterology

13 (0.26)

Pediatric nephrology

13 (0.26)

Clinical pathology

12 (0.24)

Radio-oncology

12 (0.24)

Pediatric endocrinology

12 (0.24)

Sports medicine

12 (0.24)

Pediatric anesthesiology

11 (0.22)

Pediatric hematology

9 (0.18)

Pediatric oncology

9 (0.18)

Gynecologic urology

7 (0.14)

Neurologic endovascular therapy

6 (0.12)

Pediatric neurosurgery

5 (0.10)

Pediatric otolaryngology

5 (0.10)

Neuro-radiology

5 (0.10)

Clinical nutrition

4 (0.08)

Geriatrics

4 (0.08)

Pediatric pathology

4 (0.08)

Pediatric rheumatology

4 (0.08)

Pediatric dermatology

4 (0.08)

Neuro-otology

2 (0.04)

Neuropathology

2 (0.04)

Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery

2 (0.04)

Dermatopathology

2 (0.04)

Neuro-ophthalmology

2 (0.04)

Neuroanesthesiology

1 (0.02)

  1. Number and percentage of residents in each specialty course that answered the survey questionnaire (n = 5,053).