Institutional factors affecting participation in national faculty development programs: a nation-wide investigation of medical schools

Table 2 The influence of various basic characteristics of medical schools

Variable		Cumulative participants from 2007 to 2015^a
Variable		Values	p-value
Ownership^a	National/Public	41.77 ± 27.89	0.884
Ownership^a	Private	43.33 ± 28.39
Geographical position^a,b	Capital area	41.38 ± 26.85	0.821
Geographical position^a,b	Non-capital area	43.5 ± 30.06
Graduate-entry program^a,b	Adopted (partly or fully)	44.57 ± 30.96	0.687
Graduate-entry program^a,b	Not adopted	40.80 ± 26.24
Founding year of medical school^c	Correlation	0.049	0.762

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