Anesthesiology: Is it a career, a job, or both?

O’Leary, Susan G.; Murphy, Michael

doi:10.1007/s12630-015-0421-0

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“…Instead, a focus on patient impact and career satisfaction is strongly recommended. 15,16 Beyond residency training, fellowship programs could see a downturn if the numbers of available graduates should ultimately fall. Nevertheless, new graduates will face pressure to acquire additional training and skills (beyond graduating requirements) in order to gain advantage over their peers.…”

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“…En revanche, il leur est fortement recommandé de réfléchir à l'impact pour les patients et à la satisfaction professionnelle envers leur carrière. 15,16 Après la formation reçue pendant la résidence, les programmes de fellowship pourraient être délaissés si le nombre de diplômés disponibles devait chuter. Les nouveaux diplômés seront toutefois vivement incités à acquérir des habiletés et une formation supplémentaires (dépassant les exigences du diplôme) afin d'avoir plus d'atouts que leurs pairs.…”

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Job shortages in anesthesia: a pro or con?

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Tenenbein

Kavanagh

2016

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth

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Job shortages in anesthesia: a pro or con?

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Tenenbein

Kavanagh

2016

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth

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“…It covers work in pre-, post- and intra-operative care in the majority of clinical procedural areas in hospital [3, 4], a burgeoning involvement in pre-hospital emergency and trauma care [5], as well as expertise in the management of critically ill patients and those with otherwise intractable acute and chronic pain. Anaesthesia and anaesthetists are therefore fundamental to an efficient and effective health service and it is important to consider questions of workforce supply and motivators for young doctors to give the specialty serious consideration as their career choice.…”

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Aspirations to become an anaesthetist: longitudinal study of historical trends and trajectories of UK-qualified doctors’ early career choices and of factors that have influenced their choices

2017

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BackgroundIt is important to inform medical educators and workforce planners in Anaesthesia about early career choices for the specialty, factors that influence them and to elucidate how recent choices of men and women doctors relate to the overall historical trends in the specialty’s popularity.MethodsWe analysed longitudinal data on career choice, based on self-completed questionnaires, from national year-of-qualification cohorts of UK-trained doctors from 1974 to 2012 surveyed one, three and 5 years post-qualification. Career destination data 10 years post-qualification were used for qualifiers between 1993 and 2002, to investigate the association between early choice and later destinations.ResultsIn years 1, 3 and 5 post-qualification, respectively, 59.9% (37,385), 64.6% (31,473), and 67.2% (24,971) of contactable doctors responded. There was an overall increase, from the early to the later cohorts, in the percentage of medical graduates who wished to enter anaesthesia: for instance year 1 choices rose from 4.6 to 9.4%, comparing the 1974 and 2012 cohorts. Men were more likely than women to express an early preference for a career in anaesthesia: for example, at year 3 after qualification anaesthesia was the choice of 10.1% of men and 7.9% of women. There was a striking increase in the certainty with which women chose anaesthesia as their future career specialty in recent compared to earlier cohorts, not reflected in any trends observed in men choosing anaesthesia.Sixty percent of doctors who were anaesthetists, 10 years after qualifying, had specified anaesthesia as their preferred specialty when surveyed in year 1, 80% in year 3, and 92% in year 5.Doctors working as anaesthetists were less likely than those working in other hospital specialties to have specified, as strong influences on specialty choice, ‘experience of the subject’ as students, ‘inclinations before medical school’, and ‘what I really want to do’. Men anaesthetists were more influenced in their specialty choice than men in other hospital specialties by ‘wanting a career with acceptable hours’; the corresponding difference among women was not significant.ConclusionsWe suggest a focus on inspirational teaching of anaesthesia in medical school and on greater exposure to the specialty in the foundation programme. Factors which may discourage women from entering anaesthesia should be explored and addressed.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12871-017-0392-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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So…why do you want to become an anesthesiologist?

McCartney

2015

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth

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Anesthesiology: Is it a career, a job, or both?

Cited by 6 publications

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Job shortages in anesthesia: a pro or con?

Job shortages in anesthesia: a pro or con?

Aspirations to become an anaesthetist: longitudinal study of historical trends and trajectories of UK-qualified doctors’ early career choices and of factors that have influenced their choices

So…why do you want to become an anesthesiologist?

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