Topics for Which Graduates Believe More Training Would Have Been Helpful*
| Topic† | Year of residency graduation | P Value‡ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 to 1983 | 1984 to 1993 | 1994 to 2003 | ||
| Adult inpatient medicine | 0.0 | 1.0 | 5.3 | .02 |
| Pediatric outpatient medicine | 0.0 | 5.1 | 5.3 | .11 |
| Pediatric inpatient medicine | 0.0 | 5.1 | 10.6 | .004 |
| Prenatal care | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | .27 |
| Inpatient OB (routine) | 7.4 | 2.0 | 1.1 | .03 |
| Inpatient OB (high risk) | 1.5 | 5.1 | 9.6 | .03 |
| Emergency medicine | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | .48 |
| ICU/MICU | 4.5 | 9.2 | 17.0 | .01 |
| Geriatrics | 14.9 | 4.1 | 2.1 | .002 |
| Behavioral science | 7.5 | 3.1 | 3.2 | .23 |
| Practice management | 14.9 | 20.4 | 31.9 | .009 |
| Procedural skills | 11.9 | 27.6 | 20.2 | .33 |
| Cross-cultural medicine | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | .72 |
| Use of computers in medicine | 7.5 | 12.2 | 9.6 | .76 |
| Nursing home medicine | 13.4 | 5.1 | 6.4 | .14 |
| Orthopedics | 3.0 | 7.1 | 5.3 | .61 |
* For respondents who returned more than one survey, a positive response on any survey was included. N = 259 respondents.
† Responses to open-ended question, “For areas in which you did not feel adequately prepared, what specific additional training would have been helpful.”
‡ Mantel-Haenszel χ2 test for trend.