Table 1 Participation in formal CME in Finland in 2005 according to specialty group
From: Amount of external CME in groups of specialties: a nation-wide survey among Finnish doctors
Total number of working-age specialists* | Respondents, n (%) | Participation in formal CME, days' mean (95% CI) | IRR (95% CI)** | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine | 663 | 430 (64.9) | 7.8 (7.4-8.3) | 1.00 (reference) |
Diagnostic specialties (Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Pathology) | 429 | 260 (60.6) | 8.6 (7.9-9.3) | 1.09 (1.03-1.15) |
General Practice/Family Medicine | 1,737 | 1,327 (76.4) | 7.8 (7.4-8.1) | 0.98 (0.94-1.02) |
Neurology | 257 | 191 (74.3) | 10.3 (9.3-11.2) | 1.32 (1.25-1.39) |
Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 598 | 455 (76.1) | 9.4 (8.9-10.0) | 1.20 (1.15-1.26) |
Occupational Health | 561 | 413 (73.6) | 7.9 (7.4-8.4) | 0.99 (0.94-1.04) |
Ophthalmology | 396 | 280 (70.7) | 7.6 (7.1-8.2) | 0.97 (0.92-1.03) |
Other specialties (Phoniatrics, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Geriatrics, Dermatology and Allergology, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Sports Medicine, Oncology, Public Health, Forensic Medicine, Clinical Genetics) | 750 | 556 (74.1) | 9.4 (8.8-10.0) | 1.20 (1.15-1.25) |
Otolaryngology | 300 | 215 (71.7) | 8.0 (7.4-8.7) | 1.02 (0.96-1.08) |
Paediatric specialties (Paediatrics and Child Neurology) | 592 | 426 (72.0) | 9.6 (9.0-10.3) | 1.23 (1.17-1.29) |
Psychiatric specialties (Adolescent P., Child P., Forensic P., Psychiatry) | 1,234 | 831 (67.3) | 8.9 (8.3-9.5) | 1.13 (1.09-1.18) |
Radiology | 549 | 340 (61.9) | 7.7 (7.2-8.2) | 0.98 (0.93-1.03) |
Respiratory Medicine and Allergology | 194 | 147 (75.8) | 9.4 (8.0-10.7) | 1.20 (1.12-1.27) |
Specialties related to Internal Medicine (Cardiology, Clinical Haematology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Rheumatology) | 1,103 | 783 (71.0) | 9.8 (9.5-10.2) | 1.26 (1.21-1.31) |
Surgical specialties (Cardiothoracic S., Gastroenterologic S., General S., Hand S., Neurosurgery, Oral and Maxillofacial S., Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Paediatric S., Plastic S., Urology, and Vascular Surgery) | 1,135 | 720 (63.4) | 10.4 (9.9-10.9) | 1.32 (1.27-1.38) |
All | 10,498 | 7,374 (70.2) | 8.8 (8.7-9.0) | -- |