Unveiling professional and personal preferences of early career dentists during first year of employment at the Thai dental public sector: a one-year cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the implementation of various government policies to retain Thai dentists in public sector, a high turnover rate among early career dentists has persisted for decades. This study aims to explore factors relating to early career dentists' choice of the public sector as their preferred workplace and decisions relating to staying, resigning, or relocating from the workplace after one-year employment.

Methods

A one-year cross-sectional survey was conducted among Thai early career dentists who began working in 2020 using two sets of online questionnaires. The first survey assessed factors influencing dentists' decision to choose the public sector as their preferred workplace at the beginning of the year. The second survey investigated factors influencing dentis

SUBMITTER: Arunratanothai T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710705 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature