Fig. 1

Barriers to research participation and experience in research skills. Participants were divided by clinical responsibility (clinical care provider vs non-clinician) and satisfaction with research involvement (happy vs unhappy). Significant differences between groups determined by unpaired t-test; error bars represent SE. A Impact of barriers to research participation rated by mean Likert scale: Not a barrier (0), Moderate barrier (1), Major barrier (2). B Self-perceived experience with various research tasks, rated by mean Likert scale: No (1), Little (2), Some (3), Moderate (4) and Very (5) Experienced. C Impact of absence of permanent postgraduate medical trainees on physician research goals; measured by proportion of physicians (n = 24) who strongly disagreed, disagreed, neither agreed or disagreed, agreed or strongly agreed with the above statement