Planning for retirement from medicine: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggests there are important personal and social consequences associated with inadequate retirement planning for physicians. We evaluated whether academic physicians felt satisfied with their retirement planning, and identified obstacles to retirement planning and a set of factors to facilitate retirement planning.

Methods

We applied a sequential mixed-methods research design to explore and examine factors that facilitate academic physician retirement planning using data collected from multiple sources (including 7 focus groups, an internet-based survey and 23 in-depth interviews). We examined survey results regarding retirement planning satisfaction and preferences for complete versus gradual retirement. We used thematic analysis to examine verbatim tran

SUBMITTER: Pannor Silver M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378543 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature