Attitudes of Surgical Trainees and Faculty Towards Parental Leave During Surgical Training.

Autor: Acker SN; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Research Outcomes in Children's Surgery, Center for Children's Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. Electronic address: shannon.acker@childrenscolorado.org., Corbisiero MF; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado., Romano J; Department of Surgery, Section of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan., Stewart C; Department of Surgery, St. Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, Colorado., Bothwell S; Department of Research Outcomes in Children's Surgery, Center for Children's Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado., Kelley-Quon LI; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California., Lofberg K; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon., Russell K; Division of Pediatric Surgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah., Nehler M; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado., Christian N; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of surgical education [J Surg Educ] 2024 Sep; Vol. 81 (9), pp. 1239-1248. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.06.012
Abstrakt: Objective: Our aim was to better understand attitudes towards parental leave from the perspective of both surgeon faculty and current surgical trainees. We hypothesized that support for trainees to take parental leave would vary by year of residency graduation and by parental status.
Design: We conducted a web-based survey regarding opinions on trainee parental leave. Quantitative and conventional content qualitative analyses were performed.
Participants: Surveys were sent to surgeon faculty and current trainees from 5 large academic surgical residency programs.
Results: Survey response rates were 11.5% for surgeon faculty (68/589), and 17.7% for trainees (50/281). There were 80/118 (67.8%) respondents who reported they had or were currently expecting children, 40/80 (50%) of whom were the gestational carrier. Most thought that 6-12 weeks of parental leave should be given to child-bearing trainees (62/118, 52.5%); another 32.2% (38/118) thought >12 weeks should be given. Responses were similar amongst surgeon faculty and trainees, parents and nonparents, and respondents who identified as men and women. Qualitative analysis revealed that most respondents felt parental leave did not put unreasonable strain on other trainees and felt support could be shown both informally and with formal written policies facilitating patient care coverage. Current surgeon faculty were less likely to feel moderately/extremely supported by their faculty compared to trainees (39% vs 77%, p = 0.004). Less than a third (37/117, 31.6%) of respondents knew the current leave policies.
Conclusions: Amongst survey respondents, there was broad support for parental leave for surgical trainees of at least 6 weeks amongst trainees and faculty, and those with and without children. Current trainees felt more supported than current surgical faculty, suggesting that parental leave is increasingly more accepted. Support can be shown both informally and through easily accessible written policies and procedures that facilitate patient care coverage.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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