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Emergency Physician Communication Style and Career Satisfaction: Is There a Correlation?

The correlation between social style and career satisfaction among emergency physicians was investigated. An e-mail survey was sent to a random sample of 1,000 members of the American College of Emergency Physicians in practice for at least three years; 707 had valid e-mail addresses. A twenty-item behavioral style survey instrument and a five-item career satisfaction scale were used. The study incorporated prenotification and reminder e-mails. Valid responses were obtained from 329 physicians (46.5%). No correlation was shown between social style and career satisfaction. Problems with both survey instruments were discovered. Survey respondents were unhappy with their careers, with an average satisfaction of 4.03, 1 being very satisfied, 5 very dissatisfied. Areas for future study include redoing the study using different survey instruments.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc3330
Date12 1900
CreatorsMcEwen, Janet S.
ContributorsByers, Lori, Shukla, Pratibha, Gossett, John S.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, McEwen, Janet S., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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