Number of palliative care clinical rotations within family medicine and estimated proportion of residents performing such rotations by responding medical school and year, 2007/08 to 2016/17
| Medical school | Year*; no. of rotations in each school (estimated % of family medicine residents who completed a dedicated rotation) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17† | Total†‡ [%]§ | |
| A | 8 (10.6) | 3 (3.8) | 8 (9.5) | 4 (4.1) | 12 (11.6) | 12 (11.7) | 29 (27.1) | 29 (25.9) | 19 (18.5) | 13 (12.3) | 137 (14.1) [100.0] |
| B | 17 (37.0) | 13 (29.2) | 20 (40.4) | 18(33.0) | 15 (27.5) | 19 (36.2) | 17 (30.1) | 13 (21.1) | 20 (32.0) | 17 (26.2) | 169 (30.9) [100.0] |
| C | 15 (21.7) | 17 (27.0) | 29 (44.3) | 26 (38.8) | 32 (50.8) | 14 (21.7) | 17 (23.8) | 17 (23.3) | 28 (37.6) | 19 (26.0) | 214 (31.3) [100.0] |
| D | 29 (35.6) | 29 (31.7) | 25 (27.9) | 38 (46.9) | 32 (34.4) | 54 (51.7) | 38 (34.7) | 245 (37.7) [75.0] | |||
| E | 11 (40.7) | 10 (26.0) | 9 (20.2) | 13 (33.8) | 12 (30.0) | 16 (43.8) | 20 (51.3) | 22 (52.4) | 20 (45.5) | 133 (38.0) [96.8] | |
| F | 21 (36.8) | 24 (38.1) | 30 (44.8) | 26 (37.1) | 101 (39.3) [49.8] | ||||||
| G | 19 (30.2) | 13 (22.2) | 38 (60.8) | 33 (45.5) | 41 (45.8) | 51 (54.8) | 39 (40.8) | 47 (45.0) | 49 (47.8) | 47 (44.8) | 377 (44.5) [100.0] |
| H | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 26 (34.7) | 27 (33.3) | 33 (37.5) | 55 (64.3) | 63 (72.0) | 71 (77.6) | 70 (68.6) | 345 (47.5) [93.7] | |
| I | 48 (48.7) | 44 (43.3) | 45 (42.9) | 74 (66.7) | 75 (68.2) | 90 (72.3) | 88 (63.8) | 93 (62.2) | 97 (59.9) | 108 (68.1) | 762 (60.5) [100.0] |
| J | 43 (85.1) | 50 (93.5) | 49 (86.7) | 58 (93.5) | 69 (104.5) | 82 (101.9) | 76 (81.7) | 82 (88.2) | 79 (81.0) | 74 (76.3) | 662 (88.3) [100.0] |
| K | 58 (86.6) | 62 (86.1) | 54 (77.1) | 60 (87.0) | 60 (82.2) | 70 (89.2) | 78 (93.4) | 76 (89.4) | 71 (81.6) | 89 (109.9) | 678 (88.5) [100.0] |
| L¶ | 1534 (102.2) [100.0] | ||||||||||
| M | 131 (73.4) | 13 (73.4) [13.6] | |||||||||
| Total [%] | 208 (44.4) [55.4] | 213 (38.7) [62.6] | 253 (42.4) [63.0] | 337 (45.9) [71.6] | 373 (48.4 [70.2] | 408 (50.2) [70.2] | 474 (52.4) [73.9] | 496 (51.6) [74.7] | 540 (54.4) [74.5] | 652 (54.8) [87.5] | 5488 (57.9) [69.9] |
↵* Years for which the number of rotations was not provided from the medical school are left blank.
↵† Estimated percentage is greater than 100% when trainees completed more than 1 clinical rotation in palliative care during their residency program.
↵‡ Total for available years within the period 2007/08–2016/17.
↵§ [%] = percentage of family medicine residents for whom data were available/total number of family medicine residents, expressed as a percentage (see Appendix 2, Supplemental Table S2 for details).
↵¶ Medical school L provided combined data for the period 2007/08–2016/17.