Career and Lifestyle Satisfaction among Surgeons: What Really Matters? The National Lifestyles in Surgery Today Survey

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 160-169

  Troppmann, Kathrin M ^a   Palis, Bryan E ^b   Goodnight, James E ^a   Ho, Hung S ^a   Troppmann, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; DEMOGRAPHY; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL AREA; SURGEON; URBAN AREA; WORK; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CAREER CHOICE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650732051     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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