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Table 1 Specialty comparison between survey respondents and national data

From: What drives junior doctors to use clinical practice guidelines? A national cross-sectional survey of foundation doctors in England & Wales

 

Year One

Year Two

Category

Present survey results – N (%)

National training survey 2013 results (%)

Present survey results – N (%)

National training survey 2013 results (%)

Anaesthetics

20 (2.3)

2.6

14 (1.7)

3.1

Emergency medicine

22 (2.6)

2.1

92 (11.0)

16.8

General practice

0 (0.0)

0.0

170 (20.4)

15.9

Medicine

378 (44.3)

49.4

231 (27.7)

26.4

Obstetrics and gynaecology

18 (2.1)

1.3

43 (5.2)

4.9

Ophthalmology

4 (0.5)

0.1

3 (0.4)

0.8

Paediatrics and child health

27 (3.2)

2.6

35 (4.2)

5.6

Pathology

0 (0.0)

0.0

2 (0.2)

0.8

Psychiatry

35 (4.1)

1.8

32 (3.8)

4.6

Public health

0 (0.0)

0.0

13 (1.6)

0.6

Radiology

4 (0.5)

0.5

3 (0.4)

1.0

Surgery

270 (31.7)

39.5

135 (16.2)

19.5