The surgeon's perspective: promoting and discouraging factors for choosing a career in surgery as perceived by surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to identify the factors perceived by surgeons that promote surgery as an attractive or unattractive career choice for today's graduates. In addition, it examined whether the perspectives of surgeons in different professional situations converges. The content of work, contextual work conditions, and calling to this job are discussed in the context of choosing surgery as a career.

Methods

Eight hundred sixty-nine surgeons were asked to answer open-ended questions regarding the factors that promote surgery as an attractive or unattractive career choice for today's graduates. Four hundred ninety-two surgeons participated, and 1,525 statements were analyzed using Mayring's content-analyses method. Chi-square tests were used to analyze the diff

SUBMITTER: Seelandt JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4099181 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature