Respondents’ demographic characteristics
| Characteristic | No. (%) of respondents n = 652* |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Female | 246 (37.7) |
| Male | 402 (61.7) |
| Other | 4 (0.6) |
| Age, yr | |
| < 40 | 260 (39.9) |
| 40–50 | 219 (33.6) |
| > 50 | 173 (26.5) |
| Province | |
| British Columbia (10 ED groups working in 14 EDs) | 290 (44.5) |
| Alberta (3 ED groups working in 4 EDs) | 94 (14.4) |
| Saskatchewan (1 ED group working in 3 EDs) | 41 (6.3) |
| Ontario (3 ED groups working in 4 EDs) | 102 (15.6) |
| Quebec (4 ED groups working in 5 EDs) | 100 (15.3) |
| New Brunswick (1 ED group working in 4 EDs) | 25 (3.8) |
| Practice setting population | |
| > 100 000 | 563 (86.4) |
| < 100 000 | 89 (13.7) |
| Practice setting type | |
| Academic hospitals (emergency medicine residency host sites) | 486 (74.2) |
| Community-based hospitals | 169 (25.8) |
| ED group size* | |
| < 30 group members | 182 (27.9) |
| 31–49 group members | 289 (44.3) |
| ≥ 50 group members | 181 (27.8) |
| Years in practice | |
| ≤ 5 | 171 (26.2) |
| 6–10 | 151 (23.2) |
| > 10 | 330 (50.6) |
| Certification (n = 651) | |
| CCFP (EM) | 342 (52.5) |
| FRCPC | 243 (37.3) |
| ABEM and other non-Canadian EM | 51 (7.8) |
| CCFP and other FM | 15 (2.3) |
| Survey modality | |
| Online | 252 (38.7) |
| Paper | 400 (61.4) |
| Language | |
| English | 553 (84.8) |
| French | 99 (15.2) |
Note: ABEM = American Board of Emergency Medicine certification, CCFP (EM) = Certification in the College of Family Physicians of Canada (Emergency Medicine), CCFP = Certification in the College of Family Physicians of Canada (without additional emergency certification), ED = emergency department, EM = emergency medicine, FRCPC = Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, other FM = other family medicine certification.
↵* Number of staff physicians not including locums (average group size 36.3, range 21–67).