Intensive Care Unit Rotations and Predictors of Career Choice in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine: A Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Directors

Table 1

Program and rotation characteristics.

	Total	University	Community	value^ǂ
Residency/ICU characteristics
Urban location, n (%)	70 (65.4)	49 (80.3)	21 (45.7)	<0.001
Class size, median (IQR)	20 (12–30)	25.5 (18–38)	12 (9–16)	<0.001
ICU > 20 beds, n (%)	57 (53.8)	38 (62.3)	19 (42.2)	0.05
Primary MICU, n (%)	58 (54.2)	39 (63.9)	19 (41.3)	0.03
Closed ICU, n (%)	73 (68.2)	54 (88.5)	19 (41.3)	<0.001
Education and the ICU rotation
Formal curriculum, n (%)	92 (86.0)	55 (90.2)	37 (80.4)	0.17
Online curriculum, n (%)	58 (57.4)	32 (57.1)	26 (57.8)	1.00
Extremely likely to receive formal training in invasive procedures, n (%)	62 (57.9)	37 (60.7)	25 (54.4)	0.56
Residents serve as code leaders, n (%)	75 (70.8)	42 (70.0)	33 (71.7)	1.000
Percent of time on rounds spent teaching, median (IQR)	30 (20–50)	27.5 (20–33)	33 (25–50)	0.02
Total months of ICU rotations, median (IQR)	5 (3–5)	5 (3.5–5.5)	4.25 (3–5)	0.71
Central lines performed, median (IQR)	10 (5–15)	10 (6–12)	8 (5–17.5)	0.25
Team structure
More than one attending per team, n (%)	18 (17.0)	10 (16.7)	8 (17.4)	1.00
Programs with residents from other specialties, n (%)	66 (62.9)	50 (83.3)	16 (35.6)	<0.001
Programs with midlevels, n (%)	41 (39.1)	30 (50.0)	11 (24.4)	0.01
Programs with non-PCCM attendings, n (%)	23 (21.5)	15 (24.6)	8 (17.4)	0.48
Programs where PCCM most frequently serve as attendings, n (%)	100 (94.3)	56 (93.3)	44 (95.7)	0.70
Programs where PCCM are most heavily involved in education and mentorship, n (%)	100 (93.5)	55 (90.2)	45 (97.8)	0.24

^ǂ values are based on two-sided Fisher’s exact tests for categorical variables and Kruskal–Wallis tests for continuous variables.