Number of palliative care clinical rotations and estimated proportion of residents completing such rotations by medical specialty or subspecialty and year, 2007/08 to 2016/17
| Specialty/subspecialty | Year; no. of rotations in each specialty (estimated % of residents who completed a dedicated rotation) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | Total* [%]† | |
| Family medicine | 208 (44.4) | 213 (38.7) | 253 (42.4) | 337 (45.9) | 373 (48.4) | 408 (50.2) | 474 (52.4) | 496 (51.6) | 540 (54.4) | 652 (54.8) | 5488 (57.9) [69.9] |
| Other | |||||||||||
| Anesthesiology | 24 (49.8) | 23 (41.2) | 22 (36.1) | 26 (35.9) | 20 (27.2) | 33 (46.9) | 49 (62.0) | 42 (54.0) | 26 (34.6) | 23 (30.1) | 321 (34.2) [68.2] |
| Geriatric medicine | 2 (30.8) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (60.0) | 3 (50.0) | 3 (75.0) | 6 (92.3) | 11 (88.0) | 9 (60.0) | 11 (66.7) | 15 (68.2) | 87 (64.4) [91.3] |
| Internal medicine | 22 (18.4) | 28 (18.2) | 36 (20.9) | 53 (27.4) | 55 (27.5) | 70 (35.4) | 75 (34.6) | 93 (42.6) | 85 (37.9) | 98 (35.8) | 766 (30.9) [68.9] |
| Neurology | 8 (55.6) | 6 (33.3) | 6 (29.1) | 12 (49.6) | 7 (26.1) | 9 (32.8) | 9 (33.1) | 8 (32.0) | 15 (54.3) | 7 (26.5) | 92 (28.2) [61.6] |
| Psychiatry | 15 (24.8) | 27 (37.6) | 25 (33.5) | 26 (33.2) | 34 (46.7) | 37 (49.3) | 46 (52.8) | 58 (63.5) | 59 (60.8) | 58 (47.4) | 751 (64.5) [67.8] |
| Subtotal | 71 | 84 | 92 | 120 | 119 | 155 | 190 | 210 | 196 | 201 | 2017 [68.1] |
| Total | 279 | 297 | 345 | 457 | 492 | 563 | 664 | 706 | 736 | 853 | 7505 [68.9] |