Referral was categorized into five categories: general practitioner, medical specialist, and psychologist, youth care physician and occupational health physician.
We categorized job positions into eight different categories: general practitioners (GP), chief specialists in hospitals (CS), senior house officers (SHO), research work/teaching, private practitioners, administration, public health officers, and other occupation/leave.
The sources of referrals were grouped in the following categories: general practitioners, other clinical specialties, health visitors, self-referrals, others.
In these three diagnostic categories, the practitioners do not differ between their present procedure with newly-diagnosed patients after training and their earlier procedure.
This survey was to gather existing practitioners' views on desired capabilities of Chinese medicine practice against the CMRBVic requirements for new graduates to determine the knowledge and skills gaps between the two categories of practitioners.
Of the six categories, only practitioner-based therapies and manipulative and body-based therapies showed a significant difference between healthy individuals and those with one or more health needs.
When examined by healthcare worker category, medical practitioners had the lowest rate (57.1%) and phlebotomists the highest (72.5%).
Figure 2b illustrates the median research experience (red) and interest in up-skilling (blue) of the category 1 practitioners.
