Understanding Physician Work Motivation

American Medical Association

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physician Work Motivation

Treatments: Other: No intervention employed. Study is based on a cross-sectional observational design.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02263521

AMAHSA0901

Details and patient eligibility

About

Development and validation of a measure of physician work motivation.

Full description

Not that long ago, most physicians were solo practitioners. Today, more physicians are working in large, integrated delivery systems, and many are employed by hospitals and multispecialty group practices. These dramatic changes in the physician work environment raise important questions on how evolving physician payment and care delivery models support or undermine your motivation and ability to deliver high-quality patient care.

To evaluate the impact of workplace changes on what motivates physician to deliver good patient care, this study aims to develop an accurate measure of physician work motivation. Simultaneously, the investigators plan to test hypotheses on the role of various workplace and psychological factors in physicians' work motivation. Namely, the investigators hypothesize that:

20 to 25% of the variance in work motivation is explained by psychological needs satisfaction; 5 to 10% of the variance in self-reported overall health status and depression is explained by work motivation; 5% of the variation in work motivation is explained by work that is seen as a calling; and 5 to 10% of the variation in medicine viewed as a calling is explained by the learning environment.

Enrollment: 4,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• practicing physicians in all medical specialties
• resident physicians in all medical specialties
• fourth year medical students in US allopathic medical schools

Exclusion criteria

• physicians without an active medical license.
• resident physicians without an active medical license.
• fourth year medical students in US osteopathic medical schools

Trial design

4,500 participants in 3 patient groups

physicians

Description:

Nationally-representative sample of physicians in all specialties who have direct or indirect patient care responsibilities

Treatment:

Other: No intervention employed. Study is based on a cross-sectional observational design.

resident physicians

Description:

Nationally-representative of resident physicians in all specialties

Treatment:

Other: No intervention employed. Study is based on a cross-sectional observational design.

medical students

Description:

Nationally-representative sample of 4th year medical students in all US allopathic medical schools.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention employed. Study is based on a cross-sectional observational design.