Questions Response options Ethnicity-related Responses
African N=526 Indian N=250 Others N=241 missing number
Have you heard of continuing medical education? •Yes (%) 237 (46.0) 115 (47.5) 88 (37.4) 40 (3.9)
•No (%) 250 (48.5) 113 (46.7) 123 (52.3)
•Not sure (%) 28 (5.4) 14 (5.8) 24 (10.2)
Have you had the privilege of attending any continuing medical education activity? •Yes (%) 129 (26.4) 74 (30.8) 45 (19.8) 77 (7.5)
•No (%) 350 (71.7) 161 (67.1) 176 (77.5)
•Don’t know (%) 9 (1.8) 5 (2.1) 6 (2.6)
If yes, please indicate where this CME you attended took place? •Trinidad & Tobago (%) 133 (89.9) 77 (98.7) 43 (86.0) 756 (73.3)
•Caribbean Region (%) 7 (4.7) 0 (0.0) 1 (2.0)
•Outside Caribbean (%) 8 (5.4) 1 (1.3) 6 (12.0)
If given the opportunity, would you like to participate in CME on diabetes? •Yes (%) 445 (87.1) 215 (88.1) 202 (86.3) 43 (4.2)
•No (%) 37 (7.2) 13 (5.3) 17 7.3)
•Don’t know (%) 29 (5.7) 16 (6.6) 15 (6.4)
Would you like to be identified as a Specilaist Diabetes Health Educator? •Yes (%) 313 (61.7) 172 (70.8) 139 (60.7) 53 (5.1)
•No (%) 120 (23.7) 38 (15.6) 55 (24.0)
•Don’t know (%) 74 (14.6) 33 (13.4) 35 (15.3)
Table 3: Ethnicity-related assessment of awareness and participation in continuing medical education (CME).