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Area of Science:

  • Psychology and Medicine
  • Surgical Education and Training
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Performing surgery requires specific personal and professional characteristics.
  • Personality traits significantly influence human behavior and are studied using the five-factor model.
  • This study investigates the personality profiles across three generations of surgical professionals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the personality traits of surgically-oriented medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons.
  • To assess how personality profiles differ between surgical professionals and the general normative population.
  • To identify personality variations across different career stages within surgery.

Main Methods:

  • The Dutch Big Five Inventory-2 was administered online to surgical residents (n=69) and surgeons (n=60) in the Netherlands.
  • Surgically-oriented medical students (n=54) were recruited via their surgical society.
  • A normative Dutch population sample (n=617) was used for comparison, with data analyzed using one-way ANOVA and Bonferroni correction.

Main Results:

  • Surgical professionals generally scored higher in extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, open-mindedness, and lower in negative emotionality than the normative sample.
  • Surgical residents showed significantly lower open-mindedness (3.60) compared to surgeons (3.92) and medical students (3.82).
  • Surgically-oriented medical students exhibited higher negative emotionality (2.44) than residents (2.12) and surgeons (2.07).

Conclusions:

  • The surgical population possesses a distinct personality pattern characterized by determination and emotional stability.
  • Significant personality differences exist between surgical professionals and the general population.
  • Modest personality variations are observed among individuals at different career stages in surgery.