Self-reported evaluation of competencies and attitudes by physicians-in-training before and after a single day legislative advocacy experience

Table 1 Demographics of survey respondents

RESPONSES	n (%)
Primary Survey	122
Secondary Survey (response rate)	50 (46.3%)
GENDER ^*	n (%)
Female	29 (58.0%)
Male	20 (40.0%)
Other	1 (2.0%)
AGE	25.0 ± 4.2 years
YEAR OF TRAINING ^†	n (%)
Pre-medical school	16 (32.0%)
Medical school, pre-clinical	20 (40.0%)
MS1	8 (16.0%)
MS2	12 (24.0%)
Medical school, clinical	13 (26.0%)
MS3	9 (18.0%)
MS4	4 (8.0%)
M.D./Ph.D. training	1 (2.0%)
TOPIC ^‡	n (%)
Health Care for All	28 (56.0%)
Student Debt	10 (20.0%)
Global Health	7 (14.0%)
LGBT	5 (10.0%)
PRIOR EXPERIENCE ^§	n (%)
No prior experience	19 (38.0%)
At least one prior experience	31 (62.0%)

^*Freeform response
^†Participants responded to the prompt: “Year of Training (select one)”.
^‡Participants responded to the prompt: “What topic will you be lobbying on (select one)?”.
^§Participants responded to the prompt: “What type of contact have you had with a legislator or staffer prior to today’s visits (check all that apply)?” If the response was anything other than “None”, participants were said to have had at least one prior experience.

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