UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Healthcare Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, UK.
J R Soc Med. 2012 Sep;105(9):390-9. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2012.120016.
To report on doctors' family formation. Design Cohort studies using structured questionnaires. Setting UK. Participants Doctors who qualified in 1988, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2002 were followed up.
Living with spouse or partner; and doctors' age when first child was born.
The response to surveys including questions about domestic circumstances was 89.8% (20,717/23,077 doctors). The main outcomes - living with spouse or partner, and parenthood - varied according to age at qualification. Using the modal ages of 23-24 years at qualification, by the age of 24-25 (i.e. in their first year of medical work) a much smaller percentage of doctors than the general population was living with spouse or partner. By the age of 33, 75% of both women and men doctors were living with spouse or partner, compared with 68% of women and 61% of men aged 33 in the general population. By the age of 24-25, 2% of women doctors and 41% of women in the general population had a child; but women doctors caught up with the general population, in this respect, in their 30s. The specialty with the highest percentage of women doctors who, aged 35, had children was general practice (74%); the lowest was surgery (41%).
Doctors are more likely than other people to live with a spouse or partner, and to have children, albeit typically at later ages. Differences between specialties in rates of motherhood may indicate sacrifice by some women of family in favour of career.
报告医生的家庭构成情况。
使用结构化问卷的队列研究。
英国。
1988 年、1993 年、1996 年、1999 年、2000 年和 2002 年获得资格的医生。
与配偶或伴侣同住；医生第一个孩子出生时的年龄。
对包括家庭环境问题的调查做出回应的比例为 89.8%（20717/23077 名医生）。主要结果（与配偶或伴侣同住和为人父母）因资格年龄而异。以资格年龄 23-24 岁为中位数，与普通人群相比，在其医疗工作的第一年（即 24-25 岁），与配偶或伴侣同住的医生比例小得多。到 33 岁时，75%的女医生和男医生都与配偶或伴侣同住，而普通人群中 33 岁的女性为 68%，男性为 61%。到 24-25 岁时，2%的女医生和 41%的普通人群中的女性已经有了孩子；但女医生在 30 多岁时在这方面赶上了普通人群。在所有专业中，有孩子的女医生比例最高的是全科医学（74%）；比例最低的是外科（41%）。
尽管医生生育孩子的年龄通常较晚，但与其他人相比，他们更有可能与配偶或伴侣同住，并且更有可能生育孩子。不同专业之间母亲率的差异可能表明，一些女性为了职业而牺牲了家庭。
