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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Preparing tomorrow’s medical specialists for participating in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: perceived barriers, facilitators and training needs

 

Residents (n = 19)

Medical specialists (n = 16)

Gender

  Male

8

9

  Female

11

7

Medical specialty

  

  Medical oncology

3

3

  Radiation oncology

3

3

  Surgical oncology

4

4

  Radiology

3

2

  Nuclear radiology

2

1

Pathology

4

3

Hospital

  Academic

16

7

  Peripheral

3

9

Regiona

  

  A

1

3

  B

7

7

  C

2

2

  D

9

4

Training duration of residents (years)

  ≤ 3

4

 

  4–6

15

 

Residents role in oncologic MDTMsb

  

  Observer role initially

19

 

  Describing diagnostics

9

 

  Presenting patient cases

8

 

  Active participation in discussions

5

 

  Taking minutes

3

 
  1. aRegions are coded based on the provinces in the Netherlands
  2. bMDTMs multidisciplinary team meetings