Stewart F M J, Drummond J R, Carson L, Theaker E D
Dundee Dental School, University of Dundee, UK.
Br Dent J. 2007 Sep 8;203(5):257-63. doi: 10.1038/bdj.2007.790.
To gather information from senior dental students about their future career plans, with particular emphasis on work-life balance issues, their attitudes towards the NHS and retirement plans.
Senior dental students at the Universities of Dundee and Manchester were asked to complete a voluntary anonymous questionnaire.
In all 141 questionnaires were completed, 42 by students in Manchester and 114 in Dundee. On qualification nearly all surveyed intend to work full time but after five years one quarter (26%) of females intend to work part time. This is significantly (p < 0.05) different from males where nearly all (98%) intend to work full time. Although the majority (65%) intend to work in general practice significant numbers (19%) wish to have a career in hospital dentistry and very few (3%) in community dentistry. Senior students seem to show no more commitment to the NHS than those in our previous study of dental school applicants. Only 3% intend to work exclusively for the NHS and 18% intend to work exclusively in the private sector. Surprising numbers had plans to retire or go part time before 60 years of age. Only 20% of the sample intended to continue working full time after the age of 60 years. The mode age that those surveyed intended to start a family was 30 years and a large majority of both sexes thought this would interrupt their professional life. More than half of the sample intend to take time out of dentistry until their children attended primary school (female 63%, male 38%) and 6% (female 6%, male 8%) until secondary school.
Many of our findings suggest that future generations of dentists may have a pattern of professional life that will have the effect of reducing their clinical commitment, although it is not possible to determine how significant an effect this will have on the workforce. It may, however, be appropriate to take career intention into account when workforce planning.
收集高年级牙科学生关于其未来职业规划的信息，尤其关注工作与生活平衡问题、他们对国民保健制度（NHS）的态度以及退休计划。
邓迪大学和曼彻斯特大学的高年级牙科学生被要求填写一份自愿匿名问卷。
共完成141份问卷，其中曼彻斯特的学生填写了42份，邓迪的学生填写了114份。毕业后，几乎所有接受调查的学生都打算全职工作，但五年后，四分之一（26%）的女性打算兼职工作。这与男性有显著差异（p < 0.05），几乎所有男性（98%）打算全职工作。尽管大多数（65%）打算从事全科牙科工作，但相当一部分（19%）希望从事医院牙科工作，很少有人（3%）希望从事社区牙科工作。高年级学生对NHS的忠诚度似乎并不比我们之前对牙科学校申请者的研究中的学生更高。只有3%的人打算专门为NHS工作，18%的人打算专门在私营部门工作。令人惊讶的是，有相当数量的人计划在60岁之前退休或兼职工作。只有20%的样本打算在60岁之后继续全职工作。接受调查的人打算组建家庭的平均年龄是30岁，绝大多数男女都认为这会中断他们的职业生涯。超过一半的样本打算在孩子上小学之前暂停牙科工作（女性63%，男性38%），6%（女性6%，男性8%）打算在孩子上中学之前暂停。
我们的许多研究结果表明，未来几代牙医的职业生活模式可能会减少他们的临床投入，尽管无法确定这将对劳动力产生多大影响。然而，在进行劳动力规划时，考虑职业意向可能是合适的。
