Total percentage of respondents (across both sexes) reporting completion of courses/training across 20 CPD topics, as well as mean importance rankings (±SEM) for CPD topics
| Skills | Mean ratings for importance of CPD topic and total percentage who have previously completed training in this area | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine | Diagnostic | Paediatrics | Surgery | O&G | Other | |||||||||
| M (SEM) | % | M (SEM) | % | M (SEM) | % | M (SEM) | % | M (SEM) | % | M (SEM) | % | p(M) | p(%) | |
| CPR | 5.4 (0.1) | 58 | 4.3 (0.4) | 23 # | 6.6 (0.2) | 87 | 4.6 (0.3) | 53 | 5.6 (0.3) | 62 | 4.9 (0.4) | 70 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Medical education/assessment | 5.2 (0.1) | 61 | 5.1 (0.3) | 45 | 5.7 (0.2) | 63 | 5.1 (0.2) | 62 | 5.2 (0.2) | 76 | 5.6 (0.3) | 65 | 0.410 | 0.593 |
| Health and safety in the workplace | 4.2 (0.1) | 31 | 4.5 (0.3) | 40 | 4.6 (0.4) | 43 | 3.9 (0.3) | 31 | 4.5 (0.3) | 19 | 4.0 (0.4) | 35 | 0.269 | 0.813 |
| Nutrition | 3.8 (0.1) | 9 | 2.9 (0.4) | 5 | 5.2 (0.3) | 33* | 3.6 (0.3) | 7 | 4.1 (0.3) | 0 | 4.6 (0.3) | 5 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Quality improvement | 5.1 (0.1) | 37 | 5.4 (0.3) | 51 | 5.2 (0.3) | 53 | 4.7 (0.2) | 22 | 4.9 (0.3) | 29 | 5.2 (0.4) | 50 | 0.153 | 0.076 |
| Developing services and effecting change | 5.1 (0.1) | 33 | 5.0 (0.3) | 23 | 5.4 (0.2) | 24 | 4.7 (0.2) | 23 | 5.0 (0.3) | 19 | 5.4 (0.3) | 37 | 0.432 | 0.758 |
| Management skills | 5.3 (0.1) | 36 | 5.0 (0.3) | 28 | 5.6 (0.2) | 41 | 5.0 (0.2) | 41 | 5.2 (0.3) | 38 | 5.4 (0.3) | 35 | 0.451 | 0.966 |
| Infection control | 5.3 (0.1) | 54 | 4.8 (0.3) | 46 | 5.7 (0.3) | 62 | 5.3 (0.2) | 47 | 5.2 (0.3) | 43 | 5.3 (0.3) | 60 | 0.283 | 0.866 |
| Coaching and mentoring | 5.0 (0.1) | 29 | 4.7 (0.3) | 24 | 5.4 (0.2) | 35 | 4.8 (0.2) | 37 | 4.9 (0.4) | 33 | 5.2 (0.4) | 40 | 0.570 | 0.940 |
| Patient safety and medical error | 5.8 (0.1) | 38 | 5.4 (0.3) | 32 | 6.0 (0.2) | 45 | 5.4 (0.2) | 28 | 5.2 (0.2) | 33 | 5.9 (0.3) | 40 | 0.079 | 0.901 |
| Media training | 3.6 (0.1) | 15 | 3.5 (0.4) | 8 | 4.4 (0.3) | 14 | 3.1 (0.2) | 8 | 3.8 (0.4) | 14 | 3.8 (0.4) | 10 | 0.042 | 0.921 |
| Presentation skills | 4.9 (0.1) | 22 | 4.6 (0.3) | 8 | 5.4 (0.2) | 21 | 4.7 (0.2) | 28 | 4.9 (0.3) | 10 | 5.2 (0.3) | 15 | 0.285 | 0.421 |
| Interviewer skills | 4.7 (0.1) | 28 | 4.2 (0.3) | 18 | 5.2 (0.3) | 24 | 4.4 (0.2) | 22 | 4.3 (0.3) | 14 | 5.1 (0.3) | 50 | 0.036 | 0.349 |
| Cognitive behaviour therapy | 3.4 (0.1) | 10 | 2.7 (0.3) | 3 | 3.9 (0.4)* | 14 | 2.9 (0.2) | 3 | 3.3 (0.3) | 5 | 4.2 (0.4) | 10 | 0.006 | 0.706 |
| Behaviour change | 3.9 (0.1) | 9 | 3.2 (0.3) | 0 | 4.3 (0.3)* | 3 | 3.1 (0.2) | 3 | 3.7 (0.3) | 5 | 4.8 (0.4) | 9 | 0.001 | 0.309 |
| Healthcare economics/resource management | 4.5 (0.1) | 18 | 4.3 (0.3) | 16 | 3.9 (0.2) | 3 | 4.1 (0.2) | 15 | 4.7 (0.3) | 14 | 4.8 (0.3) | 20 | 0.141 | 0.847 |
| Apps, technology and social media in medicine | 4.3 (0.1) | 13 | 3.8 (0.3) | 16 | 4.5 (0.3) | 21 | 3.9 (0.2) | 13 | 4.4 (0.3) | 10 | 4.4 (0.4) | 20 | 0.243 | 0.968 |
| Human anatomy | 3.8 (0.1) | 13 | 4.7 (0.3) | 16 | 3.8 (0.4) | 10 | 5.7 (0.2)† | 37 | 4.3 (0.4) | 14 | 5.3 (0.4) | 10 | 0.000 | 0.017 |
| Resilience training | 4.2 (0.1) | 13 | 4.0 (0.3) | 3 | 4.6 (0.4) | 14 | 3.6 (0.2) | 3 | 4.4 (0.3) | 10 | 4.7 (0.4) | 10 | 0.095 | 0.555 |
| Disaster/refugee medicine | 3.3 (0.1) | 5 | 2.5 (0.3) | 0 | 4.0 (0.4) | 4 | 2.8 (0.2) | 8 | 3.3 (0.3) | 5 | 3.4 (0.4) | 0 | 0.017 | 0.800 |
A score of 1 signifies ‘very unimportant’ and 7 indicates ‘very important’.
Mann-Whitney U test comparisons, where p<0.007 (two-tailed) (Bonferroni correction): #decreased relative to other clinical specialties; *increased relative to other clinical specialties; †increased relative to medicine, diagnostic, paediatrics, and O&G.
CPD = continuing professional development; CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation; M = mean; O&G = obstetrics and gynaecology; p(M) = p-value associated with mean importance ranking data; p(%) = p-value associated with percentage completion comparisons; SEM = standard error of the mean.