A qualitative approach to identify barriers to multi-professional teamwork among medical professors at Iranian teaching hospitals

Table 1 Personal and social characteristics of the study participants

Group	Participant number	Academic degree/	Work experience	Age	Gender
Educational Development Center (EDC)	P4	Professor	21	48	Male
	P8	Professor	18	45	Female
	P11	Associate Professor	25	52	Male
	P13	Associate Professor	19	56	Male
Emergency medicine	P2	Associate Professor	15	40	Male
	P3	Associate Professor	16	45	Male
	P12	Associate Professor	18	42	Male
Internal medicine	P1	Associate Professor	25	58	Female
	P5	Associate Professor	27	53	Male
	P6	Associate Professor	26	54	Male
	P7	Associate Professor	23	47	Male
	P15	Associate Professor	16	49	Male
Medical student	P16	Intern, Urology Group	–	27	Male
	P17	Intern, Neurosurgery Group		24	Female
	P18	Intern, General surgery Group	–	26	Male
	P19	Intern, Gastroenterology Group	–	25	Male
	P20	Extern, ENT Group	–	24	Female
Surgery	P9	Associate Professor	28	56	Male
Surgery	P10	Associate Professor	28	53	Male
Urology	P14	Associate Professor	27	55	Male

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