Comparing characteristics and perspectives of U.S. anesthesiology fellows in training and anesthesiologists in their first year of practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of this study was to evaluate relationships between demographics, professional characteristics, and perceived challenges facing the specialty of anesthesiology among physicians who entered a fellowship and those who started independent practice immediately after finishing a U.S. anesthesiology residency.

Methods

Anesthesiologists in the year after their residency graduation were invited to take an online survey during the academic years of 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019, with questions about their personal characteristics, the nature of their professional lives, and their perceptions of the greatest challenge facing the profession of anesthesiology.

Results

A total of 884 fellows-in-training and 735 anesthesiologists starting independent pr

SUBMITTER: Toutkoushian E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10725004 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature