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Table 5 Demographic data of journal club participants. Demographic data of the medical education journal club participants that responded the evaluation questionnaire, postgraduate studies division, UNAM faculty of medicine (n = 22)

From: Eight years’ experience with a Medical Education Journal Club in Mexico: a quasi-experimental one-group study

Gender

Male = 18 (82 %) Female = 4 (18 %)

Age (mean ± SD)

60.4 ± 10.5 years (Range 36 to 83)

Highest degree earned

College = 2 (9 %), Master = 5 (23 %), Medical specialty = 10 (45 %), PhD = 5 (23 %)

Professional field

Medicine = 19 (88 %), Sociology = 1 (4 %), Psychology = 1 (4 %), Pedagogy = 1 (4 %)

Medical specialty

Family medicine = 3

General surgery = 2

Internal medicine = 2

Neurosurgery = 1

Pathology = 1

Otolaryngology = 2

Oncology = 1

Epidemiology = 1

Critical care = 1

Pneumology = 1

Psychiatry = 2

Rehabilitation

Pediatrics = 1

medicine = 1

Direct contact with residents in teaching activities

Yes = 17 (77 %) No = 5 (23 %)

Number of MECJ sessions attended last year (median ± IQR)

9 ± 3

Formal training in medical education

Diplomate = 10, Masters = 1, PhD = 2,

Other = 2, No = 6