Emergency physician personnel crisis: a survey on attitudes of new generations in Slovenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency departments globally are overburdened, and emergency medicine residency is losing popularity among students and physicians. This raises concerns about the collapse of a life-saving system. Our goal was to identify the key workforce reasoning and question medical staff employment behavior.

Methods

This was a prospective cross-sectional study. In December 2022, medical students and pre-residency doctors in Slovenia were invited to complete a web-based questionnaire. The data were analyzed using T-test, chi-square test, Mann‒Whitney-Wilcoxon tests, and principal component analysis. Open-ended questions were hand-categorized.

Results

There were 686 participatns who clicked on the first page and 436 of those finished the survey. 4% of participants gave

SUBMITTER: Petravic L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10865631 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature