Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Research Outcomes in Children's Surgery, Center for Children's Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
J Surg Educ. 2024 Sep;81(9):1239-1248. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.06.012. Epub 2024 Jul 8.
Our aim was to better understand attitudes towards parental leave from the perspective of both surgeon faculty and current surgical trainees. We hypothesized that support for trainees to take parental leave would vary by year of residency graduation and by parental status.
We conducted a web-based survey regarding opinions on trainee parental leave. Quantitative and conventional content qualitative analyses were performed.
Surveys were sent to surgeon faculty and current trainees from 5 large academic surgical residency programs.
Survey response rates were 11.5% for surgeon faculty (68/589), and 17.7% for trainees (50/281). There were 80/118 (67.8%) respondents who reported they had or were currently expecting children, 40/80 (50%) of whom were the gestational carrier. Most thought that 6-12 weeks of parental leave should be given to child-bearing trainees (62/118, 52.5%); another 32.2% (38/118) thought >12 weeks should be given. Responses were similar amongst surgeon faculty and trainees, parents and nonparents, and respondents who identified as men and women. Qualitative analysis revealed that most respondents felt parental leave did not put unreasonable strain on other trainees and felt support could be shown both informally and with formal written policies facilitating patient care coverage. Current surgeon faculty were less likely to feel moderately/extremely supported by their faculty compared to trainees (39% vs 77%, p = 0.004). Less than a third (37/117, 31.6%) of respondents knew the current leave policies.
Amongst survey respondents, there was broad support for parental leave for surgical trainees of at least 6 weeks amongst trainees and faculty, and those with and without children. Current trainees felt more supported than current surgical faculty, suggesting that parental leave is increasingly more accepted. Support can be shown both informally and through easily accessible written policies and procedures that facilitate patient care coverage.
我们旨在从外科教员和当前外科受训者的角度更好地了解对育儿假的态度。我们假设，对受训者休假的支持程度将因住院医师毕业年份和父母身份而异。
我们进行了一项关于受训者育儿假意见的网络调查。进行了定量和传统内容的定性分析。
调查对象来自 5 个大型学术外科住院医师培训计划的外科教员和当前受训者。
外科教员的调查回复率为 11.5%（68/589），受训者的回复率为 17.7%（50/281）。有 118 名受访者中的 80 名（67.8%）报告他们有或正在期待孩子，其中 40 名（50%）是代孕母亲。大多数人认为应该给生育子女的受训者提供 6-12 周的育儿假（62/118，52.5%）；另外 32.2%（38/118）认为应该提供超过 12 周的假期。外科教员和受训者、父母和非父母以及自我认同为男性和女性的受访者的回答相似。定性分析表明，大多数受访者认为育儿假不会给其他受训者带来不合理的压力，并认为可以通过非正式和正式的书面政策来提供支持，以促进患者护理覆盖。现任外科教员感到自己得到教员的支持程度不如受训者（39%对 77%，p=0.004）。不到三分之一（37/117，31.6%）的受访者了解当前的休假政策。
在调查受访者中，受训者和教员、有子女和无子女的人都广泛支持为外科受训者提供至少 6 周的育儿假。目前的受训者感到比目前的外科教员得到更多的支持，这表明育儿假越来越被接受。支持可以通过非正式和容易获得的书面政策和程序来提供，这些政策和程序促进了患者护理的覆盖。
