Needs assessment for a curriculum for difficult conversations -a survey from 5 Chinese accredited neurology residency training programs

Table 1 Residents’ demographic characteristics

	Resident	%
Age Range
20–29	155	85.16
30–39	26	14.29
40–49	1	0.55
Gender
Female	154	84.62
Male	28	15.38
Postgraduate level
PGY1	65	35.71
PGY2	55	30.22
PGY3	45	24.73
PGY4	6	3.3
PGY5	11	6.04
Hospital and University
Peking Union Medical College Hospital	49	26.92
Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University	65	35.71
West China Hospital Sichuan University	34	18.68
Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology	21	11.54
Huashan Hospital Fudan University	13	7.14

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