Different but similar: personality traits of​ surgeons and internists-results of a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medical practice may attract and possibly enhance distinct personality profiles. We set out to describe the personality profiles of surgical and medical specialties focusing on board-certified physicians.

Design

Prospective, observational.

Setting

Online survey containing the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), an internationally validated measure of the Five Factor Model of personality dimensions, distributed to board-certified physicians, residents and medical students in several European countries and Canada. Differences in personality profiles were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance and Canonical Linear Discriminant Analysis on age-standardised and sex-standardised z-scores of the personality traits. Single personality traits were analy

SUBMITTER: Stienen MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045716 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature