The questionnaire included a question on specialty preference.
†Percentages are calculated based on number of respondents per question, by specialty.
The respondents were grouped into five different specialties on the basis of their response to the mandatory question regarding their specialty.
The older one, who was clearly the wiser, said he had been in the service for more than forty years already, and had joined when it was still the tsar's army, after which he changed the subject to modern times, and in reply to my question about his specialty he replied that he was a chemist.
For the question "Which medical specialty owns the license to administer treatment?", several, non-exclusive replies could be chosen among the alternatives Nuclear Medicine, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Endocrinology, Interventional Radiology, or Other.
Overall, 44% of respondents to this question chose a specialty for which training is not currently available in Malawi.
To address the question of its specialty to a specific phenotype, we compared the pathway network to 150 random pathway networks, and using a permutation test we calculated the p-value of each pathway edge.
The survey focused on two subject areas: (i) collection of general (administrative) data such as existence, size, financial resources, reasons for the establishment, infrastructure, and integration into the teaching (27 questions) as well as an additional question regarding the specialty fields represented in the simulation and training centers (one question).
(Pf1-3) The answer of the palliative care physicians on the question which medical specialty would be most suitable to act as nursing home physician was that it should be either a family doctor or a geriatrician because of their experiences with elderly people: " either a family doctor or a geriatrician.
Senior clinicians were often (particularly in the early stages of the implementation) less likely to be affected directly by the system on a daily basis than their more junior colleagues (though this to an extent depended on the system in question and the specialty).
