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[Characteristics of employment and wellbeing among physicians working in Santiago, Chile]
Julia Acuña1, Irene Schiattino, Nina Horwitz
1Departamento Psiquiatría Oriente, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile. jacuna@med.uchile.cl
Background:
Profound changes have been observed in medical practice during the last thirty years. This may be understood as a result of the influence of economic variables in health services management, among other probable causes. At the same time, doctors' work has been diversified, and a tendency to work in several paid jobs simultaneously has been observed.
Aim:
To describe the characteristics of employment in a representative sample of Chilean physicians.
Material And Methods:
A probabilistic sample of 414 physicians residing in Metropolitan Santiago answered a survey about their number and type of jobs and completed the BIS UMED questionnaire that measures the subjective wellbeing of physicians.
Results:
Forty percent of surveyed physicians had three or more jobs (36.3% of men and 47.5% of women). There was a significant inverse association between the number of jobs, general wellbeing and facing medicine from a new perspective.
Conclusions:
The number of jobs is inversely related to the general wellbeing of physicians.
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