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Table 2 Comparisons by rank at SOM, years spent at SOM, and current employment setting among respondents in authors’ 2015 survey of faculty who left SOM between 1999 and 2014

From: Reasons for faculty departures from an academic medical center: a survey and comparison across faculty lines

 

n (%) or mean (standard deviation)

All respondents

Clinical Line

Non-Clinical Line

Rank at SOM

 Assistant professor

47 (55%)

30 (64%)

17 (36%)

 Associate professor

25 (30%)

12 (52%)

13 (48%)

 Full professor

13 (15%)

5 (38%)

8 (24%)

Years at SOM§

6.6 (4.0)

5.8 (3.2)

7.5 (4.7)

Current employment setting – academic vs. non-academic

 Academic (academic tenure position or clinical/teaching non-tenure position in an academic institution)

53 (62%)

25 (53%)

28 (74%)

 Gender (% F in academic positions vs M)a

15(56%)

38 (66%)

8 (42%)

17 (61%)

7 (88%)

21 (70%)

 Non-academic (health care organization, private practice, other)

32 (38%)

22 (47%)

10 (26%)

 Gender (% F in non-academic positions vs M)

12 (44%)

20 (34%)

11 (58%)

11 (39%)

1 (12%)

9 (30%)

  1. § p < .05 for independent samples t-test of difference in means between Clinical Line and Non-Clinical Line
  2. p < .10 for Pearson’s chi-square test of independence between Clinical Line and Non-Clinical Line going to Academic vs. Non-Academic Medicine
  3. a No significance for Pearson’s chi-square test of independence between Female vs. Male in Academic vs. Non-Academic Medicine