Data Analysis: General
The questionnaire was completed by 271 resident doctors representing 51.9% of all residents in Jordan. Of those, there were 189 (69.7%) females and 82 (30.3%) males. The average (SD) for age was 29.3 (3.0) years. During their residency program, while the majority of the residents never attended formal applied anatomy lectures (n = 152; 56.1%) or workshops (n = 246; 90.8%), 236 (87.1%) expressed their interest in attending future workshops.
In addition, 147 (54.2%) residents reported that the value of a medical school anatomy course was average, and 217 (80.1%) rated the value between average and extremely valuable for their current O&G training. When asked how often senior colleagues demonstrated anatomical structures during surgical procedures, 113 (41.7%) residents responded that this happened sometimes and 71 (26.2%) residents responded that this happened often. Table 1 summarizes the demographics of the respondents.
The surgical procedures that were most commonly attended or performed by resident doctors every month were caesarian section, vaginal delivery, and episiotomy repair with a median number of attended procedures per month at 15, 20, and 10, respectively. For all other procedures, the number of residents who did not attend or perform any per month ranged between 102 (for ovarian cystectomy) to 214 (for vaginal vault repair). Table S2 shows a summary of procedures attended or performed by resident doctors every month grouped according to the year of training.
The average (SD) of the total questionnaire score for all residents was 198.8 (39) and the scores ranged between 91 and 265. Furthermore, 21.2% and 9.6% of first and fifth year residents, respectively, rated their overall anatomy knowledge as either very poor or poor while 9.6% and 62% of first and fifth year residents, respectively, rated their knowledge as either good or very good (Table 2).