A survey demonstrating that the procedural experience of residents in internal medicine, critical care and emergency medicine is poor: training in ultrasound is required to rectify this

The Ultrasound Journal

Table 1 Demographics and response rates

Data are stratified by specialty, postgraduate year of training (PGY) and gender. Data are presented as frequency and percentage. The population from which the sample was obtained included 108 internal medicine residents, 16 critical care residents and 76 emergency medicine residents. Stratified response rates are given as a percentage of the number of individuals within each stratum of the population being sampled. Data stratified by gender are presented in Additional file 2: Appendix 2: Table 5. N number of respondents, PGY postgraduate year of training, RR response rate