Practice Patterns of Young Physicians, 1987 [United States] / American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9277.

ICPSR ; 9277

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--United States--Statistics.

Physicians.

Medicine--Practice--United States--Statistics.

Medicine.

Medicine--Practice.

United States.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This four-part data collection was designed to investigate the factors that influence the career decisions of young physicians and the characteristics of their practices. Part 1 comprises responses from the Young Physicians Survey (YPS) and merged data from the American Medical Association (AMA) Masterfile and the Association of American Medical Colleges' Student and Applicant Information Management System (SAIMS) database. The YPS interviewed physicians below 40 years of age who recently completed graduate medical training and were in their early years of practice. These physicians were queried about their graduate medical training, perceptions of the medical profession, current practice arrangements, career decisions, family background, patient care activities, and current income and expenses. To obtain information on current practice arrangements, respondents were questioned about the practices they worked in, including who owned the practices, the number of physicians in each practice, specialities or subspecialities practiced, usual fees for selected services, percentages of revenues from HMOs, PPOs, and IPAs, and percentages of patients who were Medicare patients, had no health insurance coverage, or were poor, Black, Hispanic, severely physically disabled, or chronically mentally ill. Questions on career decisions asked respondents about factors that influenced their career choices, such as reasons for working in multiple practices, reasons for leaving past practices, and reasons for deciding in favor of or against self-employment. Information on family background elicited by the survey includes the respondent's race, marital status, and educational debt, parents' income class and education, number of children living in the respondent's home, and whether the respondent's spouse or parents were physicians. Questions on patient care activities included questions... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09277

Contents:

Part 1: Young Physicians Survey; Part 2: Socioeconomic Monitoring System Study; Part 3: ZIP Code Data; Part 4: Verbatim Responses to Open-Ended Questions

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61162161

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.