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Comparing characteristics and perspectives of U.S. anesthesiology fellows in training and anesthesiologists in their first year of practice. BMC medical education Toutkoushian, E., Chen, D., Sun, H., Warner, D. O., Macario, A., Deiner, S. G., Keegan, M. T. 2023; 23 (1): 963

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate relationships between demographics, professional characteristics, and perceived challenges facing the specialty of anesthesiology among physicians who entered a fellowship and those who started independent practice immediately after finishing a U.S. anesthesiology residency.Anesthesiologists in the year after their residency graduation were invited to take an online survey during the academic years of 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019, with questions about their personal characteristics, the nature of their professional lives, and their perceptions of the greatest challenge facing the profession of anesthesiology.A total of 884 fellows-in-training and 735 anesthesiologists starting independent practice right after the completion of their residency responded. Fellows were slightly younger (mean?=?33.2 vs. 34.0 years old, p?

View details for DOI 10.1186/s12909-023-04890-1

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