From the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Infectious Disease Manpower in the United States—1986. 1. Description of Infectious, Disease Physicians
| Autor: | Bruce H. Hamory, Lanis L. Hicks |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Veterinary medicine
education.field_of_study medicine.medical_specialty Inequality business.industry Public health media_common.quotation_subject Population Patient care Infectious Diseases Current practice Infectious disease (medical specialty) Private practice Family medicine medicine Immunology and Allergy Infectious Disease Medicine education business media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 165:205-217 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/infdis/165.2.205 |
| Popis: | A survey designed to assess the number, type, and current practice patterns of all infectious disease (ID) physicians active in the United States in 1986 was carried out in early 1987. Of 4328 mailed questionnaires, 48.3% were returned. One-third of respondents were in private practice, one-third in academics, and the rest in industry or government. Women accounted for 12.4% of the total; they were younger and as a group spent a greater proportion of total effort in ID. Sixty-five percent of all respondents had greater than or equal to 2 years training in ID. Overall, private practitioners worked longer hours than academicians but spent slightly less effort devoted solely to ID. The proportion of total effort devoted to ID has increased among physicians newly entering practice. Seventy-five percent of all respondents held a teaching appointment. Older ID physicians worked less than 50 h/week and tended to have more administrative than patient care responsibilities. In 1986, there were the equivalent of 1792 full-time ID physicians in the United States or 1:134,000 population. |
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