Romanian psychiatric residents' opinion on factors which influence their decision to emigrate as challenge for reforms in educational and medical system in psychiatry

Abstract

Our objectives were the prioritization exercises of main factors related with psychiatric residents' decision of emigrate could be a starting point of elaboration of a strategy of reforms. The study is cross sectional evaluation at national level, on a randomized selected sample of Romanian psychiatric residents' opinion on factors which influence decision of migration in EU countries. In results we noticed that 75% of psychiatric residents intend to work abroad (71.66% for a limited period of time and 28.33% intend to emigrate) and 5% intend to leave the specialty. “Better working conditions” for 37.31% residents and “respect and appreciation by colleagues” for 17.91% represent the most important factor for decision to emigrate. “Being far from family members” was considered by 64.18% of responders as an important disadvantage of working abroad. As main conclusions, we discover the factors which influence their decision to emigrate represent the starting points on futures reforms in educational and medical system in psychiatry.