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Table 1 Characteristics of Junior Doctors enrolled in the study (Health Education North West London, April 2014)

From: A needs assessment study for optimising prescribing practice in secondary care junior doctors: the Antibiotic Prescribing Education among Doctors (APED)

N total participants = 140

Na (%)

Gender

 Male

63 (45.7 %)

 Female

75 (54.3 %)

Age (years)

 22–25

57 (41.6 %)

 26–29

52 (38.0 %)

 30+

28 (20.4 %)

Current post

 1st year post-qualified

58 (41.5 %)

 2nd year post-qualified

45 (32.1 %)

  ≥ 3rd year post-qualified

37 (26.4 %)

Country of medical training

 UK

129 (94.2 %)

 Outside of UK

8 (5.8 %)

First post-qualified post

 Medicine

80 (58.8 %)

 Surgery

54 (39.7 %)

 Other

2 (1.5 %)

Currently prescribing antimicrobials in their post

 Yes

134 (95.7 %)

 No

6 (4.3 %)

  1. aPresence of missing values if the total of answers per category does not equal 140