Title
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.
Identifier
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2012.051407
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.