Danish doctors’ reactions to ‘internationalization’ in clinical training in a public university hospital

BMC Research Notes

Table 2 Doctors’ experience working with International teams consisting of a Danish speaking and non-Danish speaking students

	International teams, in total	International teams at Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology^a	International teams at Department of Pediatrics^b	p-values
Have you worked with students who trained in pairs?	45% (51/113)	25% (13/53)	63% (38/60)	< 0.001^d
If you worked with students who trained in pairs, how do you rate this?	6 (3–7), n = 50	6 (3–7), N = 13	6 (4–7), N = 38	0.542^c
If you worked with students who trained in pairs, did you give feedback to the students?	90% (43/48)	92% (12/13)	90% (34/38)	0.808
If you have given feedback to a pair of students, how do you rate this?	6 (3–7), n = 46	6 (3–7), N = 12	6 (4–7), N = 35	0.529^c
Doctors who support that the departments continue with the international teams	90% (92/102)	94% (46/49)	87% (46/53)	0.385

Median (range) rates. The questions were evaluated on a 7-point Likert scale with rating of 1 = unacceptable, 4 = acceptable and 7 = excellent
^aThe meetings were in English
^bThe majority of meetings was in Danish
^cMann–Whitney test done by http://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/mannwhitney/Default2.aspx
^dYates corrected Chi square test done by http://www.openepi.com/Menu/OE_Menu.htm

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