Socioeconomic and Personal Variables Effecting Retention of Medical Officers

Abstract

The question of which factors influence career decision of medical officers in the military services provides the focus for this thesis. It addresses the question of how a myriad of socioeconomic and personal variables impact upon physician retention. Cross tabulation, multiple regression, and discriminant analysis are utilized to do a quantitative examination of the potential motivational factors involved in making career decisions. Both financial incentives and job components are found to be important variables affecting career decisions of military physicians.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA124658

Entities

People

  • Russell L. Cain

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Minority Groups
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Physicians
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine