Research Title: Assessment of Factors Influencing the Future Subspecialty Choice for residents of the Saudi Program of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.

Summary:

Several Factors determine residents’ choice for future subspecialties. These include interest, working hours, income, and future job opportunities. Moreover, choice of future subspecialty might be influenced by gender, marital status, financial status, and sponsoring institute. These factors are different in different regions in the world, and determining them carries many benefits to residents, program directors, and recruiting officials in health care institutes.

A Medline search was carried on and apart from a study carried on medical students, no study assessing factors influencing future career/subspecialty choice for Saudi residents was found.

1. Research Problem:

Subspecialty choice in otolaryngology resident is challenging decision make. This decision is usually influenced by several factors in variable significance. Determining these factors allows modifying them which benefits both residents and institutes.

2. Research Significance:

Variable factors influence residents’ future subspecialty choice. Determining these factors and their significance allows modifying them in favor of attracting the brightest trainees to specialties in need.

3. Research Objectives:

What factors influence residents’ choice for a subspecialty after finishing residency?

Of these factors, what are the most important?

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4. Research Methodology:

Cross sectional survey-based study carried on residents of the Saudi Program of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Riyadh region.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

KING SAUD UNIVERSITY

College of Medicine

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

المملكة العربية السعودية

جامعة الملك سعود

كلية الطب

مجلس أخلاقيات البحوث الطبية

التوقيع

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الكلية/القسم

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الرتبة العلمية

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أسماء الباحثين^*

Investigators Names*

مدينة الأمير سلطان الطبية العسكرية. . قسم الأنف Ùˆ الأذن Ùˆ الحنجرة

طبيب مقيم في برنامج البورد السعودي لجراحة الأنف Ùˆ الأذن Ùˆ الحنجرة Ùˆ جراحة الرأس Ùˆ العنق

1-د. محمد بدر السميري

مستشفى الحرس الوطني. قسم الأنف Ùˆ الأذن Ùˆ الحنجرة

طبيب نائب اول

2-د.اماني عبيد

مستشفى الملك عبدالعزيز الجامعي . قسم الأنف Ùˆ الأذن Ùˆ الحنجرة

استشاري و استاذ مساعد

3-د.خالد القحطاني

مشكلة البحث و أهميته

Research Problem and Significance

Subspecialty choose in otolaryngology resident is difficult to decide and have many factor which related to work or not related. Therefore, study the factor and try to improve it will help the resident and the program .

These factor which will change the residents choose by this study we can help them and know the most important factor in our Riyadh otolaryngology resident which can influence the career . because our country have it own factors that can change the career .and there no study have the same significance in otology or any Saudi Arabia program.

أهداف البحث

Research Objectives

Why do resident change there subspecialty during the program ?

And these factor ,we can study it and improve it.

And also help the otolaryngology program for improving the program

directors devise strategies to attract the best and brightest

trainees.

أدبيات البحث

Literature Review

Choose the career is one of the most important question which most of the educated countries try to help the people to

Improve the work and rise the work professional ,which is improve the out come of the countries . our live in saudia Arabia have different factor than the others which play a big roll in choose the career .

There was no study in literature which done in our country to study the factors and try to improve it .

منهجية البحث

Research Methodology

Cross section retrospective study

Which is survey that distributed to 50 otolaryngology resident in the weekly ground round and the absent resident we send the survey by e-mail in 2014 .

المراجع

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16. ^{. a}From the Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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18. ^cFrom the Department of Surgery, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
19. ^dFrom the Department of Surgery, King Khalid Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Affiliations

• Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
• Reprint requests: Keith D. Calligaro, MD, 700 Spruce St, Ste 101, Philadelphia, PA 19106

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