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.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• McEwen, Janet S.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Byers, Lori
• Shukla, Pratibha
• Gossett, John S.

• Emergency physicians.
• Interpersonal communication.
• Emergency physicians -- Job satisfaction.
• correlation
• personality style
• communication style
• physician style
• career satisfaction

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• McEwen, Janet S.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 52136207
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3330/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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