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What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study

BACKGROUND: In Finland the number of medical specialists varies between specialties and regions. More regulation of the post-graduate medical training is planned. Therefore, it is important to clarify what predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen specialty. METHODS: A random sample contained...

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Autores principales: Heikkilä, Teppo J., Hyppölä, Harri, Vänskä, Jukka, Halila, Hannu, Kujala, Santero, Virjo, Irma, Sumanen, Markku, Kosunen, Elise, Mattila, Kari
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0643-z
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author Heikkilä, Teppo J.
Hyppölä, Harri
Vänskä, Jukka
Halila, Hannu
Kujala, Santero
Virjo, Irma
Sumanen, Markku
Kosunen, Elise
Mattila, Kari
author_facet Heikkilä, Teppo J.
Hyppölä, Harri
Vänskä, Jukka
Halila, Hannu
Kujala, Santero
Virjo, Irma
Sumanen, Markku
Kosunen, Elise
Mattila, Kari
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description BACKGROUND: In Finland the number of medical specialists varies between specialties and regions. More regulation of the post-graduate medical training is planned. Therefore, it is important to clarify what predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen specialty. METHODS: A random sample contained 50 % of all Finnish doctors under 70 years of age. The respose rate was 50.5 %. Working-age specialists were asked to value their motives when choosing a specialty. They were also asked if they would choose the same specialty again. The odds ratios for not choosing the same specialty again were tested. RESULTS: Diversity of work was the most important motive (74 % of respondents). Seventeen percent of GPs would not choose the same specialty again, compared to 2 % of ophthalmologists and 4 % of pediatricians. A major role of Diversity of work and Prestigious field correlated with satisfaction whereas Chance with dissatisfaction with the specialty. DISCUSSION: Motives and issues related to the work and training best correlate with satisfaction with the specialty. CONCLUSIONS: When the numbers of Finnish postgraduate medical training posts become regulated, a renewed focus should be given to finding the most suitable speciality for each doctor. Information about employment and career advice should play an important role in this.
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spelling pubmed-48454352016-04-27 What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study Heikkilä, Teppo J. Hyppölä, Harri Vänskä, Jukka Halila, Hannu Kujala, Santero Virjo, Irma Sumanen, Markku Kosunen, Elise Mattila, Kari BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: In Finland the number of medical specialists varies between specialties and regions. More regulation of the post-graduate medical training is planned. Therefore, it is important to clarify what predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen specialty. METHODS: A random sample contained 50 % of all Finnish doctors under 70 years of age. The respose rate was 50.5 %. Working-age specialists were asked to value their motives when choosing a specialty. They were also asked if they would choose the same specialty again. The odds ratios for not choosing the same specialty again were tested. RESULTS: Diversity of work was the most important motive (74 % of respondents). Seventeen percent of GPs would not choose the same specialty again, compared to 2 % of ophthalmologists and 4 % of pediatricians. A major role of Diversity of work and Prestigious field correlated with satisfaction whereas Chance with dissatisfaction with the specialty. DISCUSSION: Motives and issues related to the work and training best correlate with satisfaction with the specialty. CONCLUSIONS: When the numbers of Finnish postgraduate medical training posts become regulated, a renewed focus should be given to finding the most suitable speciality for each doctor. Information about employment and career advice should play an important role in this. BioMed Central 2016-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4845435/ /pubmed/27114239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0643-z Text en © Heikkilä et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Heikkilä, Teppo J.
Hyppölä, Harri
Vänskä, Jukka
Halila, Hannu
Kujala, Santero
Virjo, Irma
Sumanen, Markku
Kosunen, Elise
Mattila, Kari
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title_fullStr What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study
title_full_unstemmed What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study
title_short What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study
title_sort what predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? a finnish national study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0643-z
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