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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Heikkilä, Teppo J. Hyppölä, Harri Vänskä, Jukka Halila, Hannu Kujala, Santero Virjo, Irma Sumanen, Markku Kosunen, Elise Mattila, Kari What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study |
title | What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study |
title_full | What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study |
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 |
topic | Research Article |
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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