Hours worked per week

Average Hours Worked per Week (excluding on-call)

	Overall	Females	Males	Under 35	35 - 44	45 - 54	55 - 64	65+
Number of respondents	3285	932	2353	323	1090	1013	587	272
Direct patient care	36.2	31.7	38.0	38.3	36.3	37.0	36.7	29.4
Health facility committees	1.3	1.1	1.4	0.9	1.3	1.4	1.6	1.1
Managing your practice	2.0	1.8	2.1	1.8	2.0	2.1	2.1	1.8
Other patient care (charting, phone calls, etc.)	4.5	5.3	4.2	5.2	5.1	4.3	3.9	3.6
Research	1.6	1.3	1.8	0.7	2.0	1.7	1.4	1.3
Administration	2.2	1.8	2.4	0.9	1.9	3.0	2.8	1.3
Teaching	1.5	1.4	1.5	1.0	1.7	1.5	1.6	0.8
Continuing Medical Education	2.9	2.9	2.9	3.0	2.9	2.8	3.1	2.9
Other	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.5	1.0	1.2	1.6	1.4
Total1	53.4	48.2	55.5	52.3	54.2	54.9	54.7	43.6
Notes: 1. Does not include those reporting more than 105 hours per week (excluding on-call).

Average Hours Worked per Week (excluding on-call)

	GP/FP	Med Spec	Surg Spec	Rural	Urban
Number of respondents	1681	1148	456	288	2997
Direct patient care	36.8	34.0	39.8	37.1	36.1
Health facility committees	1.1	1.6	1.7	1.2	1.4
Managing your practice	2.0	1.9	2.3	2.0	2.0
Other (charting, phone calls, etc.)	5.2	3.8	3.9	4.8	4.5
Research	0.7	3.0	1.6	0.4	1.7
Administration	1.6	3.3	2.0	1.1	2.4
Teaching	0.8	2.2	2.1	0.8	1.5
Continuing Medical Education	3.0	3.0	2.5	2.8	2.9
Other	1.1	1.2	1.1	0.8	1.2
Total1	52.1	54.0	57.0	51.0	53.7
Notes: 1. Does not include those reporting more than 105 hours per week (excluding on-call).