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Table 4 The influence of educational states

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

Variable

  

Cumulative participants from 2007 to 2015

Values

p-value

Size of a classa

  

0.142

0.382

Length of formal curriculum (weeks)a

  

−0.189

0.248

DME

Establishmentb

Not established yet

38.64 ± 30.32

0.566c

Established

44.0 ± 26.53

Established year of DMEa

 

0.397

0.045

Number of full-time facultya

Total number of full-time faculty

 

0.167

0.302

Total faculty < median

 

0.460

0.041

Total faculty ≥ median

 

0.267

0.256

Proportion of full-time faculty who graduated from their own medical schoola

Proportion of alumni faculty

 

0.008

0.961

Proportion < 50%

 

0.165

0.476

Proportion ≥ 50%

 

−0.670

0.006

  1. DME department of medical education
  2. a Pearson correlation with cumulative participants from 2007 to 2015; b Mean ± SD c independent sample t-test