Fluid management knowledge in hospital physicians: ‘Greenshoots’ of improvement but still a cause for concern

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Table 1.

Number of hours of undergraduate and postgraduate training reported by study participants

	All	ICC and GMC	SpR	CMT and FY
Total participants, n	376	31	133	212
Undergraduate training responses, n	359	31	124	205
<5 hours, n (%)	171 (47)	22 (71)	42 (34)	107 (52)
5–10 hours, n (%)	79 (22)	1 (3)	29 (23)	49 (24)
10–20 hours, n (%)	37 (11)	0	12 (10)	25 (12)
20–40 hours, n (%)	21 (6)	2 (6)	10 (8)	9 (4)
>40 hours, n (%)	51 (14)	5 (16)	31 (25)	15 (7)
Postgraduate training responses, n	337	30	123	184
<5 hours, n (%)	193 (57)	5 (17)	37 (30)	151 (82)
5–10 hours, n (%)	60 (18)	9 (30)	33 (27)	18 (10)
10–20 hours, n (%)	25 (8)	3 (10)	17 (14)	5 (3)
20–40 hours, n (%)	21 (6)	9 (30)	8 (7)	4 (2)
>40 hours, n (%)	38 (11)	4 (13)	28 (22)	6 (3)

CMT = core medical trainee; FY = foundation year doctor; GMC = general medical consultant; ICC = intensive care consultant; SpR = specialist registrar.

Table 2.

Correlation (r_s) between confidence and knowledge test scores (see score measures) before and after test performance

	Score 1 essential knowledge, r_s (p value)	Score 2 desirable knowledge, r_s (p value)	Score 3 all, r_s (p value)
All
Confidence before	0.20 (<0.001)	0.22 (<0.001)	0.21 (<0.001)
Confidence after	0.28 (<0.001)	0.30 (<0.001)	0.31 (<0.001)
All – excluding ICCs
Confidence before	0.10 (0.052)	0.14 (0.008)	0.11 (0.037)
Confidence after	0.17 (0.05)	0.21 (<0.001)	0.21 (<0.001)
ICCs
Confidence before	0.23 (0.324)	0.37 (0.107)	0.27 (0.242)
Confidence after	0.22 (0.434)	0.30 (0.274)	0.41 (0.129)
GMCs
Confidence before	–0.01 (0.988)	0.22 (0.517)	0.01 (0.970)
Confidence after	0.63 (0.072)	0.77 (0.015)	0.49 (0.183)
SpRs
Confidence before	0.07 (0.400)	0.03 (0.773)	0.00 (0.914)
Confidence after	–0.02 (0.862)	–0.24 (0.045)	–0.18 (0.128)
CMTs
Confidence before	–0.18 (0.158)	0.11 (0.400)	–0.079 (0.527)
Confidence after	–0.01 (0.928)	0.18 (0.151)	0.25 (0.044)
FYs
Confidence before	0.22 (0.008)	0.02 (0.827)	0.05 (0.543)
Confidence after	0.28 (0.002)	0.11 (0.207)	0.18 (0.044)

CMT = core medical trainee; FY = foundation year doctor; GMC = general medical consultant; ICC = intensive care consultant; SpR = specialist registrar.