Intensive Care Unit Rotations and Predictors of Career Choice in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine: A Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Directors
Table 2
Different ICU characteristic in programs with low or high % of PCCM applicants.
Low
High
value§
University sponsored, n (%)
34 (57.6)
27 (58.7)
1.00
Urban, n (%)
36 (61.0)
33 (71.7)
0.30
Pure MICU, n (%)
33 (55.9)
25 (54.4)
1.00
Closed staffing, n (%)
39 (66.1)
34 (73.9)
0.40
ICU > 20 beds, n (%)
26 (44.1)
30 (66.7)
0.03
Formal curriculum, n (%)
51 (86.4)
39 (84.8)
1.00
Online curriculum, n (%)
27 (50)
30 (66.7)
0.11
Extremely likely to be trained in invasive procedures, n (%)
33 (55.9)
28 (60.9)
0.69
Serve as code leaders, n (%)
38 (64.4)
35 (77.8)
0.19
PCCM as specialty most involved in education/mentorship, n (%)
53 (89.8)
45 (97.8)
0.13
PCCM as the specialty that most frequently attends in the ICU, n (%)
53 (91.4)
45 (97.8)
0.22
Programs with non-PCCM attendings, n (%)
14 (23.7)
9 (19.6)
0.64
Midlevel providers on the ICU team, n (%)
21 (36.2)
20 (44.4)
0.42
Nonmedicine residents on the ICU team, n (%)
34 (57.6)
31 (70.5)
0.22
Total ICU months, mean (SD)
4.6 (2.4)
4.6 (1.2)
0.88
Class size, mean (SD)
21.8 (12.9)
23.1 (13.4)
0.63
Number of central lines, mean (SD)
10.1 (7.1)
13.0 (10.5)
0.10
Percent of class pursuing any fellowship, mean (SD)
47.9 (20.6)
59.3 (17.2)
<0.01
“High” and “low” refer to the percentage of the class entering PCCM with respect to the median percentage observed (10%); § values are based on two-sided Fisher’s exact tests for categorical variables and Students t-tests for continuous variables.
