Featured blog post: Physician job (dis)satisfaction factors
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, March 24, 2009
Medical groups are taking the time to better understand what factors cause job satisfaction—and dissatisfaction—as reported on the recent 2008 Physician Retention Survey by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search.
Among all survey respondents, 66% of the AMGA medical group members confirmed that they poll their physicians on job satisfaction levels; of those, 61% reported they conduct these satisfaction surveys on an annual basis.
The most frequently referenced sources of job satisfaction are:
- Collegial relationships (i.e. acceptance by colleagues)
- Opportunities to work with peers in a collegial manner
- Ability to network
- Job flexibility
- Work-life balance
- Clinical autonomy and involvement in decision making
Conversely, common sources of job dissatisfaction among physicians, according to AMGA member groups, are. . .Read the dissatisfaction factors on the HospitalistLeadership.com blog post by Nancy Burns of Cejka Search.
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