A National Survey of Mentoring Practices for Young Investigators in Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Table 1
Characteristics of participants in the ICRH survey.
Characteristic
Clinician versus nonclinician
Total ()
Nonclinician ()
Clinician ()
Women, %
45.5
48.9
47.1
Geographic location, %
Alberta
12.2
17.8
13.4
Atlantic Canada
4.9
4.4
5.2
British Columbia
12.2
8.9
10.5
Manitoba
6.5
6.7
6.4
Ontario
35.0
37.8
37.2
Quebec
10.6
20.0
15.7
Saskatchewan
0.8
0.0
0.6
International
9.8
4.4
8.1
Missing
8.1
0.0
2.9
Current career stage, %
Master’s student
10.6
11.1
11.0
Ph.D. student
32.5
33.3
32.0
Postdoctoral fellow
36.6
22.2
32.0
New investigator†
4.9
26.7
10.5
No longer pursuing research
4.1
0.0
2.9
Other
11.4
4.4
10.5
Missing
0.0
2.2
0.6
CIHR theme, %
Biomedical
74.8
22.2
60.5
Clinical
18.7
66.7
32.0
Health system services
0.8
6.7
2.3
Social, cultural, environmental, and population health
5.7
4.4
5.2
Current training/working environment, %
Campus-based
34.1
24.4
31.4
Hospital-based
39.0
51.1
41.9
Mixed campus/hospital-based
22.8
24.4
23.8
Other
4.1
0.0
2.9
CIHR: Canadian Institutes of Health Research; ICRH: Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health. 4 participants did not specify whether or not they were clinicians. †Within 60 months of first academic appointment.
