Table 1 Demographics of medical students responding to a survey on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) [see Additional file 1], by survey administration to three successive classes.
Survey Class | Response Rate | Demographic Measures* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | Gender | Ethnicity | |||||
20–29 | ≥30 | Female | Male | Caucasian | Other | ||
MS 1 at entry to medical school | 87/92 | 98.7 | 1.3 | 48.5 | 51.5 | 38.1 | 61.9 |
MS 2 at midpoint of second year of medical school | 88/93 | 91.9 | 7.1 | 44.7 | 55.3 | 42.0 | 58.0 |
MS 2 at end of second year of medical school | 97/97 | 85.6 | 14.4 | 50.7 | 49.3 | 49.4 | 50.6 |
Total | 272/282 | 91.9 | 8.1 | 47.8 | 52.2 | 43.0 | 57.0 |