2017 HSC Section 2 - Practice Management

ATTITUDES ABOUT MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION

TABLE 2. Demographic Characteristics of the Survey Sample a

n (%)

Respondents (n ¼ 988) b

Domain

Response

Invited (N ¼ 4583)

Specialty

Anesthesiology

231 (5.1) 311 (6.8) 496 (10.9) 586 (12.8) 701 (15.4) 278 (6.1) 352 (7.7) 694 (15.2) 821 (18.0) 3054 (66.6) 1529 (33.4) 987 (21.6) 955 (20.9) 1563 (34.1) 1072 (23.4) 95 (2.1)

53 (5.4) 54 (5.5) 98 (10.0) 108 (11.0) 145 (14.8) 55 (5.6) 76 (7.8) 44 (4.5) c 148 (15.1) 197 (20.1) 590 (66.2) 301 (33.8) 199 (20.6) 221 (22.8) 326 (33.7) 222 (22.9) 571 (93.0) 260 (29.2) 620 (69.7) 309 (33.7) 165 (18.0) 349 (38.1) 181 (18.8) 280 (29.0) 285 (29.6) 218 (22.6) 133 (13.6) 226 (23.1) 290 (29.7) 328 (33.6) 345 (35.3) 305 (31.3) 326 (33.4) 243 (24.8) 465 (47.5) 179 (18.3) 43 (7.0) 10 (1.1)

Diagnostic subspecialties

Family medicine

Internal medicine, general

Internal medicine subspecialties

Obstetrics-gynecology

Pediatrics

Pediatric subspecialties

Surgery and surgical subspecialties

Other clinical specialties

Sex

Male

Female

Region

Northeast

Midwest

South West Rural Urban

Community size d

359 (7.8)

4218 (92.2)

Certi fi cation status

Lifetime

NA

Time-limited, current

Time-limited, not current

Burnout

Feel burned out Feel more callous

NA

Either burned out or callous

Years since training

1-10

NA

11-20 21-30

> 30

Practice size

1 physician

NA

2-5

6-25 > 25

Compensation model

Salary ( fi xed)

NA

Salary with incentives

Productivity

Practice type

Self-employed

NA

Medical group or hospital

Academic

Other

91 (9.3) 6 (0.7)

Race

American Indian

NA

Asian Black

131 (15.2)

22 (2.6) 2 (0.2)

Paci fi c Islander

White

701 (81.3)

Ethnicity

Hispanic

NA

49 (5.9)

a NA ¼ not available. b Numbers may not sum to 988 because of missing data. Percentages are calculated using all available data. n ¼ 916 for burnout items. c P < .001 compared with nonrespondents. We also compared respondents against national demographic characteristics 28 and found only small differences (see text). d Community size available only for those completing the Internet survey.

Mayo Clin Proc. n October 2016;91(10):1336-1345 n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.07.004 www.mayoclinicproceedings.org

185