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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: An educational intervention to facilitate appropriate subspecialty referrals: a study assessing resident communication skills

 

Number

Percentage

Sex

 Female

40

74%

 Male

14

26%

Year of training

 PGY-1

29

54%

 PGY-2

7

13%

 PGY-3

17

31%

 PGY-4

1

2%

Previous Communication Skills Exposure

 Communication Skills workshop in medical school

29

54%

 Communication Skills workshop in residency

13

24%

 Communication Skills workshop/curriculum in medical school that covered the “Difficult Patient Encounter”

34

63%

 Communication Skills workshop/curriculum in residency that covered the “Difficult Patient Encounter”

8

15%

Exposure to patients with presenting symptom of syncope

 None

3

5%

 1–3 patients

23

43%

 4–6 patients

15

28%

  > 7 patients

13

24%

  1. PGY Post-graduate year