Medical Resident (PGY2) Results

The following questionnaire was presented to and competed by second year family medicine residents in Canada in 2004. Please review the questionnaire and use your cursor to click on those questions for which you wish to view results.

Demographics for Medical Residents (PGY2)

A. Training

B. Learning Environment

C. Future Practice/ Work Setting Profile

D. Future Practice/ Work Profile

E. Time Allocation

F. Professional Income

G. Education and Demographics

Please complete this questionnaire if you are in your SECOND year of a two-year Family Medicine Residency Program at a Canadian University.

If you are not a second year family medicine resident, please indicate your status below.
            ؎ First year family medicine resident
            ؎ Third year advanced skills family medicine training position
            ؎ Resident in a specialty other than family medicine
            ؎ Physician in practice
            ؎ Other

A. Training

1.  Please indicate your overall sense of satisfaction with your family medicine program.
           

2.a) For the following experiences within your residency training, please indicate:

2. b) In your opinion, which of the following courses, if any, should be mandatory within family medicine residency training programs? Please check the courses you feel should be mandatory and then indicate whether or not you are currently certified in those courses, or plan to be certified before the completion of your residency.

                                                                                                                        Plan to have this
Should be                                                                        Currently have                certification before
mandatory?                                                                     this certification             completion of residency

؎         ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)                     ؎Yes                           ؎Yes

؎          ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support)                       ؎Yes                           ؎Yes

؎          ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics)            ؎Yes                           ؎Yes

؎          PALS (Paediatric Advanced Life Support)                   ؎Yes                          ؎Yes

؎          NALS (Neonatal Advanced Life Support)                      ؎Yes                          ؎Yes

2.c) Does your residency program provide adequate financial support specifically directed for access to obtaining the courses listed above in question #2b? ؎ Yes   ؎ No               ؎ Unsure

3.  Will you feel adequately prepared for the kind of practice you are planning to undertake?
            ؎  Yes             ؎  No                 ؎  Don’t know yet                  

 

B.          Learning Environment

4.a) Do you feel that your family medicine residency experience has taken place in an open learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
            ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

4.b) Do you feel that your family medicine residency experience has taken place in a supportive learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
            ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

4.c) Do you feel that your family medicine residency experience has taken place in a collegial learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
             ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

5.a) Do you feel that your specialty experiences have taken place in an open learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
           ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

5.b) Do you feel that your specialty experiences have taken place in a supportive learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
          ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

5.c) Do you feel that your specialty experiences have taken place in a collegial learning environment?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
           ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

6.   Considering all of the areas in medicine, what led you to select family medicine? 
         Please check ALL that apply.

7. When did you decide on your current residency field?

8. Does your university have a confidential mechanism in place to report incidents of sexual harassment, intimidation or other inappropriate incidents in the learning environment?
           ؎Yes              ؎No                ؎Don’t know

9. a) Have you been harassed or intimidated during your residency?     
؎Yes               ؎No (skip to Question 10)
            If yes, by whom?        ؎ Staff person
                                                ؎Medical senior/supervisor
                                                ؎Another resident (non-supervisory)
                                                ؎Other (Please specify): ________________________
                                               
9. b) If yes, when did this occur?
            ؎ during a family medicine experience
            ؎ during a specialty experience
            ؎ both of the above

9.c) If yes, please state the frequency:   _____times per month          Other (please specify):____

10. During your residency, has your level of stress been significant enough to cause you to:

Take medical leave from your residency?                   ؎Yes              ؎No
Consult a physician for stress-related depression?    ؎Yes              ؎No
Take medication?                                                       ؎Yes              ؎No
           
11. Have you encountered negative feedback when you have had to leave a specialty service for your half-day return to the family medicine unit?
           ؎ Yes              ؎ No              

12. Do you feel that the educational and service components of your program are balanced?

Strongly agree             Agree               Neutral             Disagree                    Strongly disagree
           ؎                    ؎                    ؎                    ؎                                ؎

C.          Future Practice/ Work Setting Profile

13. Over the next 2-3 years, once you complete your family medicine residency training, do you plan to:

a) Practice as a family physician (general practitioner)?  ؎ Yes ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet
b) Practice as a locum tenens?                      ؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet
c) Buy/ set up your own practice? ؎ Yes ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet
d) Practice in a hospital setting?؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet
e) Practice within the same province in which you are currently training?
؎ Yes ؎ No ؎ Don’t know yet
f) Practice in another province or territory in Canada?          
؎ Yes ؎ Nor Don’t know yet     If yes, please specify province or territory: __________
g) Leave Canada to practise in another country? ؎ Yes ؎ No ؎ Don’t know yet
h) Specialize within an area of family medicine?
؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet   If yes, please specify: ____________
i) Take a temporary leave of absence? ؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet
j) i) Continue your residency by undertaking a fellowship position?
؎ Yes ؎ No ؎ Don’t know yet           
           
j)ii)    Continue your residency by undertaking a third year training position?
؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet

If Yes, please indicate which of the following third year training post programs you have applied to/ been accepted to:
                                                                                                      Applied                Accepted        

            Anaesthesia                                                                           ؎                    ؎        

            Care of the elderly                                                                  ؎                    ؎        
            Emergency medicine                                                               ؎                    ؎        
            Palliative care                                                                          ؎                    ؎
            Other   (Please specify) ___________________________
k) Change disciplines/ retrain within the medical field? 
؎ Yes  ؎ No  ؎ Don’t know yet   If yes, please specify field:____________
l) Seek an administrative (non patient care) position? ؎ Yes ؎ No ؎ Don’t know yet
m) How do you intend to organize your practice setting?
      ؎     Solo practice
      ؎       Group practice
      ؎      Other _______________________________________

• Don’t know yet
• N/A – Do not intend to set up a practice

n) Which of the following types of health care providers do you plan to collaborate with in providing patient care? Please check ALL that apply

؎ Family physicians	؎ Psychologists	؎ Technicians/ technologists
؎ Specialist physicians	؎ Occupational therapists	؎ Midwives
؎ Nurse practitioners	؎ Physiotherapists	؎ Other ____________________
؎ Nurses (e.g., RN, LPN, RPN)	؎ Social workers	؎ N/A – Don’t intend to do patient care
؎ Dieticians/ nutritionists	؎ Pharmacists	؎ Don’t know yet

o) Are you being actively recruited for a practice location?        ؎Yes              ؎No
  If yes, by whom?              ؎ USA 
؎ Other province or territory within Canada
؎ Other community within the province
؎ Your own community
؎ Canadian Forces Health Services
؎ Other ________________________________________

D.        Future Practice/ Work Profile

14.       Please describe the population PRIMARILY served by the practice you intend to undertake after completion of residency. Please check ONLY ONE

A. ؎ Inner city	F. ؎ Other  _________________________
B. ؎ Urban/ Suburban	G.؎ Don’t know yet
C. ؎ Small town	H.؎ I plan to do locum tenens
D.؎ Rural	I. ؎ I don’t intend to be involved in patient care
E. ؎ Geographically isolated/ Remote

15.a) Which of the following procedures are you planning to perform as part of your practice?

Please check as many categories as applicable. Please indicate if you feel you have had adequate training during your residency to perform each procedure.

	I Plan To Provide	I Have Adequate Training
Audiometry	؎	؎
Refraction	؎	؎
ECG interpretation	؎	؎
Pulmonary function testing	؎	؎
Pap smears	؎	؎
IUD insertion	؎	؎
Endometrial aspiration	؎	؎
Lumbar puncture	؎	؎
Casting/ splinting	؎	؎
Aspiration/ injection of joints	؎	؎
Incising  & draining abscesses	؎	؎
Anoscopy	؎	؎
Needle aspiration (for diagnosis/ biopsy)	؎	؎
Removal of superficial skin lesions (e.g. nevi, keratoses, cysts)	؎	؎
Cryotherapy of superficial skin lesions  (e.g. warts, nevi, lentigo)	؎	؎
Skin biopsy	؎	؎
Suturing	؎	؎
Toenail surgery	؎	؎
Endoscopy	؎	؎
D&C aspiration	؎	؎
Obstetrical deliveries	؎	؎
Newborn care	؎	؎

15 b). Please indicate all areas of professional activity that you intend to include as part of your practice and if you think that certain areas will be of special interest to you. Please note: you do not have to be certified in the area of professional activity to include it in your profile.

Area of Professional Activity	This will be part of my practice	Area of special interest to me
Addiction medicine	؎	؎
Administration	؎	؎
Alternative/ complementary medicine	؎	؎
Adolescent medicine	؎	؎
Anaesthesia	؎	؎
Cancer care/ oncology	؎	؎
Cardiology	؎	؎
Chronic disease management	؎	؎
Community medicine/ public health	؎	؎
Dermatology/ cosmetic medicine	؎	؎
Emergency medicine	؎	؎
Family practice/ general practice/ primary care	؎	؎
Geriatric medicine/ care of the elderly	؎	؎
Gynecology	؎	؎
Homecare	؎	؎
Hospitalist care	؎	؎
Infectious diseases	؎	؎
International medicine	؎	؎
Legal/ medico-legal consultations	؎	؎
Nutrition	؎	؎
Obstetrics	؎	؎
Occupational/ industrial medicine	؎	؎
Pain management	؎	؎
Palliative care	؎	؎
Pediatrics	؎	؎
Preventive medicine	؎	؎
Psychiatry	؎	؎
Psychotherapy/ counseling	؎	؎
Research	؎	؎
Sports medicine	؎	؎
Surgery	؎	؎
Surgical assisting	؎	؎
Teaching	؎	؎
Travel/ tropical medicine	؎	؎
Women’s health care	؎	؎
Other ____________________________	؎	؎
Other ____________________________	؎	؎

 

16. Do you have a PDA (personal digital assistant/ wireless device)?              ؎ Yes  ؎ No

E.      Time Allocation

17. Please indicate in which of the following areas you intend to spend time or participate upon completion of your residency training. Please check ALL that apply.

i)     Direct patient care without a teaching component, regardless of setting	؎
ii)    Direct patient care with a teaching component, regardless of setting	؎
iii)   Teaching/ Education without direct patient care (contact with students/residents,         preparation, marking, evaluations, etc.)	؎
iv)   Indirect patient care (charting, reports, phone calls, meeting patients’ family, etc.)	؎
v)    Health facility committees	؎
vi)   Managing your practice (staff, facility, equipment, etc.)	؎
vii)  Research (including management of research and publications)	؎
viii) Administration (i.e. management of university program, chief of staff, department head,         Ministry of Health, etc.)	؎
ix)    Continuing medical education/ professional development (courses, reading, videos,          tapes, seminars, etc.)	؎
x)     Other (participation in professional or specialty organizations, medico-legal activities,          etc.)	؎

F.    Professional Income

18. If you had a choice, how would you prefer to be paid for your services as a physician? 
Please check ONLY ONE.

؎	Unsure
؎	Fee-for-service only
؎	Salary only
؎	Capitation only
؎	Sessional/ per diem/ hourly payments only
؎	Service contract only
؎	Blended payment



IF BLENDED, what components would you want included? Check ALL that apply.

؎	Fee-for-service
؎	Salary
؎	Capitation
؎	Sessional/ per diem/ hourly payments
؎	Service contract
؎	Benefits/ pension
؎	On-call remuneration beyond fee-for-service
؎	Other  _______________________
؎	Unsure

 

 

 

 

 

G.      Education & Demographics

19. Please provide the 6-digit postal code of your current main residence:

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20. How many years of POST-SECONDARY education did you complete before entering medical school? (If you were a Quebec student, please do not include CEGEP)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >10

21. Beyond secondary school, what degrees/ diplomas did you complete prior to entering medical school?     Please check ALL that apply.

؎ None

؎ Diplome d’étude collegial (CEGEP)    

؎ Bachelor’s    

؎ Master’s        Please specify field/discipline: __________________________           

؎ Doctorate      Please specify field/discipline: __________________________           
؎ Other  ________________________________________

22. When and where did you complete your undergraduate MEDICAL training?

Year of Graduation	University Name	Country

23a).  At which university are you currently doing your medical training?
            ؎ University of British Columbia
            ؎ University of Calgary
            ؎ University of Alberta
            ؎ University of Saskatchewan
            ؎ University of Manitoba
            ؎ University of Western Ontario
            ؎ McMaster University
            ؎ University of Toronto
            ؎ University of Ottawa
            ؎ Queen’s University
            ؎ Université de Sherbrooke
            ؎ Université de Montréal
            ؎ McGill University
            ؎ Université Laval
            ؎ Dalhousie University
            ؎ Memorial University

23.b) Please indicate the site of your residency training program. ____________________________________________________________________________

24. Are you presently enrolled in a ‘return of service’ program, that is, a program where you have committed yourself to certain practice restrictions [location, specialty, employer, military service, armed forces, etc.] in return for financial compensation during medical school or residency?

            ؎ Yes  ؎ No

25. Please indicate the amount of debt you had and/or expect to have at various times in your medical education, as indicated below. Please separate these into 1) debt directly related to being in a medical residency program (tuition, books, accommodations, etc.), and 2) other debt (personal, mortgage, car loan, etc.)

a) Debt upon entering your medical residency training                                   Debt directly related to being               Other in a medical residency program          Debt ؎ no debt                                                         ؎ no debt                                 ؎ less than $1,000                                          ؎ less than $1,000                     ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                                          ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                    ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                                        ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                  ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                                      ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                 ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                                      ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                 ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                                      ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                 ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                                      ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                 ؎ $80,001 to $100,000                                    ؎ $80,001 to $100,000               ؎ $100,001 to $120,000                                  ؎ $100,001 to $120,000           ؎ $120,001 to $140,000                                  ؎ $120,001 to $140,000           ؎ $140,001 to $160,000                                  ؎ $140,001 to $160,000                                   ؎ Over $160,000                                             ؎ Over $160,000 ؎ I prefer not to provide this information         ؎ I prefer not to provide this information

b) Current Debt                                    Debt directly related to being               Other in a medical residency program          Debt ؎ no debt                                                         ؎ no debt                                 ؎ less than $1,000                                          ؎ less than $1,000                     ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                                          ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                    ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                                        ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                  ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                                      ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                 ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                                      ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                 ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                                      ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                 ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                                      ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                 ؎ $80,001 to $100,000                                    ؎ $80,001 to $100,000               ؎ $100,001 to $120,000                                  ؎ $100,001 to $120,000           ؎ $120,001 to $140,000                                  ؎ $120,001 to $140,000           ؎ $140,001 to $160,000                                  ؎ $140,001 to $160,000           ؎ Over $160,000                                             ؎ Over $160,000 ؎ I prefer not to provide this information         ؎ I prefer not to provide this information

c) Debt upon completion of your medical residency training                                   Debt directly related to being               Other in a medical residency program          Debt ؎ no debt                                                         ؎ no debt                                 ؎ less than $1,000                                          ؎ less than $1,000                     ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                                          ؎ $1,001 to $5,000                    ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                                        ؎ $5,001 to $10,000                  ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                                      ؎ $10,001 to $20,000                 ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                                      ؎ $20,001 to $40,000                 ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                                      ؎ $40,001 to $60,000                 ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                                      ؎ $60,001 to $80,000                 ؎ $80,001 to $100,000                                    ؎ $80,001 to $100,000               ؎ $100,001 to $120,000                                  ؎ $100,001 to $120,000           ؎ $120,001 to $140,000                                  ؎ $120,001 to $140,000           ؎ $140,001 to $160,000                                  ؎ $140,001 to $160,000                                   ؎ Over $160,000                                             ؎ Over $160,000 ؎ I prefer not to provide this information         ؎ I prefer not to provide this information

26.How much did the amount of debt that you may have had when you graduated from medical school affect your choice of specialty?
Not at all                                                                      Most important factor
O                     O                     O                     O                     O
27. How much will the amount of debt that you may have once you complete your residency program affect your choice of practice location?
Not at all                                                                      Most important factor
O                     O                     O                     O                     O                     OUnsure  

28. Marital status. Please check ONE only.

؎ single, seperated, divorced or widowed

؎ married, living with partner

Is your spouse/partner a: ؎ physician ؎ other health care provider ؎ neither

29. Do you have children or other dependents for whom you personally provide care/ supervision?

	؎	No
	؎	Yes	If yes, do you have major responsibility for the care of these individuals?
			؎    Yes	؎     No
			If these are children, what is the age of the youngest?  _____ years old

30. Which of the following describe your family members? If your parents or siblings are retired or deceased, please provide their main occupation while working. 
Please check ALL that apply.

	Father	Mother	Sibling(s)
Medical doctor	O	O	O
Nurse	O	O	O
Pharmacist	O	O	O
Other healthcare professional	O	O	O

31. Select the ONE statement which best describes the environment in which you grew up prior to university.

	؎	Exclusively/ predominantly rural
	؎	Exclusively/ predominantly small town
	؎	Exclusively/ predominantly urban
	؎	Mixture of environments

32. In which province(s) or territories did you grow up prior to going to university?
Indicate ALL that apply.
BC    AB    SK    MB    ON    QC    NB    NS    PE    NL    NT    YT    NU    Outside of Canada

33. Please enter the first three digits of the postal code where you lived in your final year of high school. If you lived at a boarding school, please enter the postal code of where your family lived during that year. If you did not live in Canada, please indicate the country where you lived.
If in Canada, first three digits of postal code: ___ ___ ___
If not in Canada, type in the country: _______________________________

34. What is your ethnic/ cultural background? Please check ALL that apply.

            ؎ White
            ؎ Aboriginal (e.g., status, non-status, Métis, Inuit)
            ؎ Chinese
            ؎ South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, etc.)
            ؎ Black
            ؎ Filipino
            ؎ Latin American
            ؎ Southeast Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese, etc.)
            ؎ Arab
            ؎ West Asian (e.g., Afghan, Iranian, etc.)
            ؎ Japanese
            ؎ Korean
            ؎ Other ____________  

؎ I prefer not to provide this information

35. Please indicate the languages that you could comfortably speak with your future patients.

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English

؎

French

؎

Other(s) ____________________

36. Were you born in Canada?
O Yes
O No.  Please indicate your status in Canada.
O Canadian citizen              
O Permanent resident (landed immigrant)                       
O Other _____________

37. Your year of birth:         19

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38. Sex: ؎ Male ؎ Female

39. Comments