Well prepared for work? Junior doctors' self-assessment after medical education

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Association between workplace factors and inter-personal factors at the workplace (confounders) and preparedness after medical education (descriptive analysis)

		Did you feel well prepared after finishing medical education?
		yes	%*	no	%*	Chi²
occupational setting	university	73	42.4	99	57.6	0.092
	tertiary care hospital	49	31.8	105	68.2
	secondary care hospital	46	32.9	94	67.1
	primary care hospital	40	28.2	102	71.8
	practice	7	35.0	13	65.0
specialty	internal medicine	52	28.0	134	72.0	0.238
	general surgery	40	39.6	61	60.4
	trauma surgery/orthopedic surgery	14	32.6	29	67.4
	anesthesiology	27	35.5	49	64.5
	gynecolocy/obstetrics	18	36.0	32	64.0
	pediatrics	15	44.1	19	55.9
	neurology	14	45.2	17	54.8
	psychiatry	6	20.7	23	79.3
	other specialties	26	34.1	45	65.9
no. of internships	4 internships (required)	119	34.8	223	65.2	0.204
	5 internships	60	30.0	140	70.0
	≥6 internships	34	42.5	46	57.5
(previous) medical experience	none	44	27.3	117	72.7	0.153
	student assistant	66	36.5	115	63.5
	several jobs as student assistant	68	35.8	122	64.2
	vocational education (nurse etc)	37	39.8	56	60.2
frequency of in-house training	at least once per month	140	37.1	237	62.9	0.061
	less than once per month	75	29.9	176	70.1
performance-related feedback by superiors	never	31	22.6	106	77.4	0.002
	seldom or sometimes	155	36.0	275	64.0
	often or always	28	46.7	32	53.3
support by supervisors and colleagues	enough or a lot of support	187	37.3	314	62.7	0.001
	little or no support	28	22.0	99	78.0

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