Surgeon and nonsurgeon personalities at different career points

Drosdeck, Joseph M.; Osayi, Sylvester N.; Peterson, Laura; Yu, Lianbo; Ellison, E. Christopher; Muscarella, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2015.02.021

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“…Students who are extroverted, ambitious and motivated by the prestige of surgical work may be good candidates for surgical training. [121][122][123][124][125][126]96,[128][129][130][131] However, bias may exist in studies of a surgical personality among medical students: students interested in surgery may construct a value system for themselves based on that of the surgeons they know, thereby promoting personality traits unique to certain surgeons that may or may not reflect the value system inherent to surgery.…”

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“…[121][122][123][124][125][126] All of these studies reported that individuals interested in surgery were significantly more extroverted and conscientious than the general population and significantly less impulsive. [121][122][123][124][125][126] Inconsistency among studies existed when reporting neuroticism in the surgical personality.…”

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A systematic review of the factors affecting choice of surgery as a career

Peel

Schlachta

Alkhamesi

2018

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A systematic review of the factors affecting choice of surgery as a careerBackground: Interest in surgical careers among medical students has declined over the past decade. Multiple explanations have been offered for why top students are deterred or rejected from surgical programs, though no consensus has emerged. Methods:We conducted a review of the literature to better characterize what factors affect the pursuit of a surgical career. We searched PubMed and EMBASE and performed additional reference checks. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Newcastle-Ottawa Education scores were used to evaluate the included data.Results: Our search identified 122 full-text, primary articles. Analysis of this evidence identified 3 core concepts that impact surgical career decision-making: gender, features of surgical education, and student "fit" in the culture of surgery. Conclusion:Real and perceived gender discrimination has deterred female medical students from entering surgical careers. In addition, limited exposure to surgery during medical school and differences between student and surgeon personality traits and values may deter students from entering surgical careers. We suggest that deliberate and visible effort to include women and early-career medical students in surgical settings may enhance their interest in carreers in surgery.Contexte : On constate que l'intérêt pour une carrière en chirurgie a décliné chez les étudiants en médecine depuis une dizaine d'années. Plusieurs raisons ont été invoquées pour expliquer le désintérêt des étudiants talentueux à l'égard des programmes de chirurgie ou leur rejet de ces programmes, sans qu'on en arrive à un consensus.

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A systematic review of the factors affecting choice of surgery as a career

Peel

Schlachta

Alkhamesi

2018

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“…However, female surgeons rated the self-discipline-oriented attributes ‘conscientiousness' and ‘good self-organisational skills' as well as ‘willingness to take risks' as significantly more important. Drosdeck et al [20] revealed that surgeons scored ‘conscientiousness' and ‘extraversion' significantly highly. Our results also seem to be in line with the work of Pololi et al [21], who revealed that male and female faculty members have equal feelings of engagement and enthusiasm with regard to their work and leadership aspirations, yet that women did not feel as confident towards career advancement as men.…”

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Biographic Characteristics and Factors Perceived as Affecting Female and Male Careers in Academic Surgery: The Tenured Gender Battle to Make It to the Top

Schwarz¹,

Sippel²,

Entwistle³

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Eur Surg Res

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Purpose: Given the high attrition rate in the field of academic surgery, we aimed to characterise the professional and personal situations of female and male academic surgeons as well as to gather data on their respective perceptions of career advancement and work satisfaction. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Germany, inviting all identifiable academically highly qualified female surgeons and their male counterparts in a 1:2 ratio to participate. An anonymous 103-item online questionnaire was designed and the data collected between July and September 2014. Results: The questionnaire was sent to 93 female and 200 male surgeons, of whom 63 women (67.7%) and 70 men (35.0%) replied. The average age was 47.5 and 47.1 years, respectively. Respondents identified ‘high degree of expertise', ‘ambition', and ‘clarity of one's professional aims' as important factors affecting professional career development. Both groups felt ‘workload', ‘working hours/shifts', and ‘gender' to be a hindrance, the latter of significantly greater importance to female surgeons. The mean work satisfaction scores were high in both female (69.5%) and male (75.7%) surgeons. The predictors ‘support from superiors' (standardised β coefficient = 0.41) and ‘manual aptitude' (β = 0.41) contributed incrementally to the variance in ‘high degree of work satisfaction' (90-100%) observed for female surgeons. However, childcare provided by ‘kindergarten/crèche/after-school care' had the greatest negative predictive value (β = -1.33). Conclusions: Although there are many parallels, female faculty members experience the culture of academic surgery to some extent differently from their male counterparts, especially when impacted by parenthood and childcare. Faculty development programmes need to develop strategies to improve perceived equality in career opportunities by respecting individuals' requirements as well as offering gender-appropriate career guidance.

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“…In a study at a large US academic medical centre, for example, surgical residents and faculty scored significantly lower on the personality characteristic of agreeableness (the tendency to exhibit altruism, trust, and modesty) than did faculty and residents in medicine and family medicine. Moreover, the surgical faculty also scored significantly lower on agreeableness than surgical residents,20 a troubling trend across these different career points.…”

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