Table 1 Characteristics of responding medical schools compared to the population of North American medical schools in 2013
From: The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools
Characteristics | Sample | Population | P a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 60 | N = 153 | |||
n (%) | n (%) | |||
Location | United States total | 54 (90%) | 139 (91%) | 0.82 |
Midwest | 15 (28%) | 33 (24%) | 0.87 | |
Northeast | 13 (24%) | 31 (22%) | ||
South | 20 (37%) | 56 (40%) | ||
West | 6 (11%) | 19 (14%) | ||
State voted Democrat in last presidential election | 35 (65%) | 85 (61%) | 0.57 | |
State voted Republican in last presidential election | 19 (35%) | 54 (39%) | ||
Canada total | 6 (10%) | 14 (9%) | 0.82 | |
Atlantic | 1 (17%) | 2 (12%) | 0.34 | |
Central | 1 (17%) | 8 (59%) | ||
Prairie Province | 3 (50%) | 3 (24%) | ||
West Coast | 1 (17%) | 1 (7%) | ||
Public or Private | Public | 37 (62%) | 86 (56%) | 0.48 |
Private | 23 (38%) | 67 (44%) | ||
Ranking | Not published | 16 (27%) | 69 (45%) | 0.08 |
1st Quartile | 10 (17%) | 21 (14%) | ||
2nd Quartile | 10 (17%) | 21 (14%) | ||
3rd Quartile | 8 (13%) | 21 (14%) | ||
4th Quartile | 16 (27%) | 21 (14%) | ||
Priority of training future researchers is… | Low | 9 (15%) | n/a | n/a |
Medium | 26 (43%) | |||
High | 17 (28%) | |||
Very high | 8 (13%) | |||