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Table 1 Existing clinical specialties for survey respondents

From: Medical graduate views on statistical learning needs for clinical practice: a comprehensive survey

Specialty (frequency) a

Total

Allergy, Infectious diseases and virology

9

 Allergy (1), Infection control (1), Infections in haematology (1),

 Medical microbiology (4), Virology (2)

 

Critical and intensive care

9

 Critical care (7), Intensive care (2)

 

Diabetes and Endocrinology

14

 Diabetes (7), Endocrinology (7)

 

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

9

 Gastroenterology (6), Hepatology (2), Nutrition (1)

 

Obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatology

27

 Fetal medicine (1), Genitourinary medicine (1), Obstetrics and gynaecology (18), Neonatology (2), Reproductive Health (1), Reproductive medicine (2), Sexual health (2)

 

Oncology

6

 Gynaecological oncology (1), Oncology (4), Respiratory oncology (1)

 

Paediatrics and child health

15

 Community child health (1), Paediatric haematology (2), Paediatric neurology (2), Paediatric respiratory medicine (4), Paediatrics (6)

 

Pathology

8

 Clinical biochemistry (1), Pathology (7)

 

Psychiatry

40

 Psychiatry (13), Adult psychiatry (14), Child and adolescent psychiatry (5), Forensic psychiatry (1), Neuropsychiatry (1), Old age psychiatry (6))

 

Surgery

42

 Breast surgery (4), Cardiothoracic surgery (1), Colorectal surgery (4) General surgery (9), Head and neck surgery (1), Hepatobiliary surgery (3), Neurosurgery (1), Orthopaedic surgery (7), Plastic and reconstructive surgery (2), Spinal surgery (1), Transplant surgery (3), Urology (3), Vascular surgery (3)

 

Otherb

142

 Acute medicine (7), Addiction medicine (3), Alcohol and substance misuse (2), Anaesthesiology (19), Cardiology (6), Clinical genetics (1), Clinical Pharmacology (2), Dermatology (3), ENT (2), General medicine (1), Geriatric medicine (8), Haematology (2), Neurology (5), Ophthalmology (2), Pain management (6), Palliative medicine (2), Patients with learning disabilities (1), Primary healthcare (14), Public Health (6), Clinical radiology (6), Rehabilitation (4), Renal medicine (4), Respiratory medicine (6), Rheumatology (3), Sleep medicine (1), Sport and exercise medicine (1), Stroke medicine (4), Toxicology (1), Transplant Medicine (1), None (19)

 

Total

321

  1. aFrequencies pertain to the number of occurrences of the corresponding specialty across free text responses to Q. 12 of the study questionnaire. As respondents were required to list all of their existing specialties, the total frequency exceeds the number of respondents
  2. bThe general category ‘Other’ is used to refer to those specialties which were identified as not falling under broader clinical categories during the classification of respondent data