Questionnaire

A bespoke web-based questionnaire (surveymonkey.com, appendix) was designed to capture information regarding participants’ clinical and non-clinical formal and self-directed training in cancer genetics, as well as their self-reported confidence in different clinical scenarios involving handling of genomic data. Data was collected between October and December 2020.

To ensure anonymity of the respondents, we did not collect specific information about gender, age, medical school, sub-specialty interests, or IP address of the participant. To further minimise potential risk of identification of an individual, comparative analyses between specialties were not undertaken if number of responses for each potential option within a question were fewer than 5. Where responses for individual options within a question were fewer than this threshold, comparisons were restricted to “procedure-based” specialties (Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology) versus “Oncology” (Medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology).

Data were collated and analysed using IBM SPSS statistical software package.