Physician job satisfaction related to actual and preferred job size

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Numbers of full-time (FT) and part-time (PT) working physicians who wish to retain, reduce or increase their actual job size for cohort and gender

		Cohorts 1982/83^a		Cohorts 1992/93^b		N	N
		(N = 265)		(N = 241)
		Male	Female	Male	Female
		(N = 137)	(N = 128)	(N = 119)	(N = 122)
FT who wish to retain job size	N	51	4	28	8	91 (18%)	217 (43%)
	Act. js^c	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	Pref.js	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
FT who wish to reduce job size	N	43	20	38	25	126 (25%)
	Act. js	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	Pref.js	0.81	0.75	0.81	0.83	0.80
PT who wish to retain job size	N	22	59	37	59	177 (35%)	289 (57%)
	Act. js	0.78	0.71	0.82	0.71	0.76
	Pref.js	0.78	0.71	0.82	0.71	0.76
PT who wish to reduce job size	N	12	18	10	11	51 (10%)
	Act. js	0.87	0.82	0.86	0.83	0.83
	Pref.js	0.74	0.66	0.73	0.69	0.69
PT who wish to increase job size	N	9	27	6	19	61 (12%)
	Act. js	0.73	0.53	0.80	0.66	0.63
	Pref.js	0.88	0.69	0.94	0.83	0.79
N		137 (27%)	128 (25%)	119 (24%)	122 (24%)	506

^a20 years in practice, ^b10 years in practice, ^cactual and preferred job size in FTE (mean scores)

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