Determinants of Physicians’ Career Choices in Ukraine
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research
Volume
3
Issue
3-4
First page number:
291
Last page number:
305
Abstract
Political and economic changes have created challenges for physician attrition rates in Ukraine. This study examined how a cross-section of Ukrainian physicians prioritised the factors hypothesised to influence decisions about continuing to work in medicine. A survey was conducted with 443 physicians in Ukraine. Latent class choice analysis (LCA) was used to model the heterogeneity in pair-wise comparisons of factors related to physician continued employment in medicine. The response rate was 70% (N = 310). Respondents, on average, were 45.4 years old, practiced 21.6 years. Four groups were identified on the basis of how they prioritised factors about work. Group 1 (47.7%) was 'culture-focused', group 2 (27.7%) was 'advancement-focused', group 3 (16.2%) was 'routinisation-focused', and group 4 (8.5%) was 'externally-focused'. The use of a person-centred analytical approach represents an alternative for examining career decision issues that should be considered for subgroups within the workforce.
Keywords
Career choices; Career decisions; Career development; Doctors; Employee retention; Healthcare services; Job satisfaction; Latent class analysis; Management; Medical careers; Physician satisfaction; Physicians – Job satisfaction; Physicians – Vocational guidance; Ukraine
Disciplines
Community Health | Health and Medical Administration
Language
English
Permissions
Copyright Inderscience. Used with permission.
Repository Citation
Mazurenko, O.,
Qu, H.,
Hulchiy, O.,
Hernandez, S. R.,
Shewchuk, R.
(2012).
Determinants of Physicians’ Career Choices in Ukraine.
International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 3(3-4),
291-305.
