Predictors of job satisfaction among academic faculty members: Do instructional and clinical staff differ?

Medical Education

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 985-995

  Chung, Kevin C ^a   Song, Jae W ^a   Myra Kim, H ^b   Woolliscroft, James O ^a   Quint, Elisabeth H ^a   Lukacs, Nicholas W ^a   Gyetko, Margaret R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEACHER; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTORS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEACHING;

EID: 77958577294     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03766.x     Document Type: Article

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