Skills acquisition for novice learners after a point-of-care ultrasound course: does clinical rank matter?

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Participant characteristics (n = 51)

Characteristic	Total (%)	Trainees^a (%)	Attending physicians^b (%)
Number of participants	51	29	22
Sex
Male	45 (88)	23 (79)	22 (100)
Female	6 (12)	6 (21)	0 (0)
Specialty
Internal medicine or subspecialty	24 (47)	13 (45)	11 (50)
Critical care, emergency medicine	4 (8)	0 (0)	4 (18)
Family medicine	5 (10)	0 (0)	5 (23)
Junior resident^c	9 (18)	9 (31)	0 (0)
Medical student^d	4 (8)	4 (14)	0 (0)
Other	5 (10)	3 (10)	2 (9)
Setting
University hospital	16 (31)	9 (31)	7 (32)
Community hospital	32 (63)	20 (69)	12 (54)
Private clinic	3 (6)	0 (0)	3 (14)

^aTrainee is defined as medical students and physicians PGY 1–5
^bAttending physician is defined as PGY 6 and higher
^cJunior resident is defined as PGY 1 and 2 physicians who were currently in the 2-year National Obligatory Initial Postgraduate Clinical Training Program
^dFifth and sixth year medical students

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