What predicts doctors’ satisfaction with their chosen medical specialty? A Finnish national study

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Table 2 Proportions of those respondents who would not choose the same medical specialty again

			Answered “No”
		n	%
Gender	Males	1174	12.1
	Females	1438	11.9
Age**	Under 45 y. o.	958	6.8
	45–54 y. o.	936	13.3
	55–64 y. o.	717	14.5
Working sector*	Specialized medical care	1299	10.7
	Primary health care	392	11.5
	Public institutions	172	14.0
	Private sector	656	13.1
University of specialist training	Helsinki	834	12.9
University of specialist training	Kuopio	324	12.3
	Oulu	427	13.8
	Tampere	523	9.9
	Turku	365	9.9
	Foreign university	37	10.8
Specialty**	General Practice	395	17.4
	Anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine	196	16.3
	Other Specialties	390	14.9
	Psychiatry	284	14.1
	Occupational Health	178	12.9
	Otorhinolaryngology	79	10.1
	Obstetrics and gynaecology	139	9.2
	Radiology	99	9.1
	Internal medicine	243	9.0
	Surgery	298	8.7
	Neurology	61	6.6
	Paediatrics	155	4.5
	Ophthalmology	90	2.2
All together		2612	12.0

Proportions (%) of the respondents answering “No” to the question “If you were making the choice again, would you still choose the same medical specialty?” of working-age medical specialists by gender, age, working sector, specialty, and university of specialist training in Physician 2013 study. Specialized medical care: university hospital, other public hospital. Primary health care: health centre, public occupational health care. Public institutions: government agency or institution, university. Internal medicine: cardiology, clinical haematology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, nephrology, rheumatology. Surgery: cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterological surgery, general surgery, hand surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, paediatric surgery, plastic surgery, urology, vascular surgery. Psychiatry: adolescent psychiatry, child psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, psychiatry. Other specialties: child neurology, clinical chemistry, clinical genetics, clinical microbiology, clinical neurophysiology, clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, clinical physiology and nuclear medicine, dermatology and allergology, forensic medicine, geriatrics, oncology, pathology, phoniatrics, physical and rehabilitation medicine, public health, respiratory medicine and allergology, sports medicine. **p <0.01, *p <0.05

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