Educational climate seems unrelated to leadership skills of clinical consultants responsible of postgraduate medical education in clinical departments

Table 1 Distribution of specialties in the background and the study population.

	*Specialties*			*Total*
	Cognitive	Surgical	Technical
Eligible clinical departments	60 (39%)	48 (31%)	46 (30%)	154
Excluded - previous leadership course	13 (31%)	16 (38%)	13 (31%)	42
Excluded - department too small	9 (27%)	5 (15%)	19 (58%)	33
Included in study	27 (48%)	21 (38%)	8 (14%)	56

Distribution of clinical departments according to specialty in the total population, study sample and excluded departments in actual numbers and percentages of the total sum. Cognitive specialties include internal medicine and subspecialties, paediatrics, dermatology, oncology, psychiatry and neurology. Surgical specialties include surgery, orthopaedic surgery, urology, gynaecology, ophthalmology, otology, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery and brain surgery. Technical specialties include anaesthesiology, radiology and all laboratory specialties.

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