Research Article

Knowledge on Irradiation, Medical Imaging Prescriptions, and Clinical Imaging Referral Guidelines among Physicians in a Sub-Saharan African Country (Cameroon)

Table 1

General characteristics of respondents according to their professional category.

General characteristicsInterne/residents
General practitioners
Specialists
value

Mean age in years ()30.6 (3.78)31.6 (4.8)40.2 (6.3)<0.01
Sex, = M/F (%)17/36 (40.7)12/27 (34.2)36/27 (25.1)<0.01
Mean years of experience ()4.2 (2.7)4.4 (3.6)7.4 (5.8)<0.01
Place of training degree: national/abroad (% of abroad)46/7 (13.2)29/10 (25.6)44/19 (30.2)0.09
Hospital working units of respondents, n (% in the professional category)
 Internal medicine, 24 (45.3)17 (43.5)27 (42.9)<0.01
 Surgery, 9 (17)4 (10.3)19 (30.2)
 Gynecology, 9 (17)4 (10.3)9 (14.3)
 Pediatric, 10 (18.9)3 (7.7)7 (11.1)
 Emergency, 1 (1.9)11 (28.2)1 (0.6)

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