Table 2.
Medical students’ wellbeing during clinical specialty rotations (n = 1,055).
| Variable | Total (n = 1,055)† | Surgical specialty training (n1 = 207) | Non-surgical specialty training (n2 = 848) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Wellbeing | ||||||
| Burnout | 2.347 | 0.617 | 2.419 | 0.627 | 2.329 | 0.613 |
| Compassion Satisfaction | 3.504 | 0.819 | 3.444 | 0.845 | 3.519 | 0.813 |
Burnout and compassion satisfaction were measured using the Professional Quality of Life Scale, Version 5, with 10 items each (20, 21). †Please refer to Supplementary Appendix 2 for descriptive statistics and statistics of the construct validity and reliability of medical students’ wellbeing. No statistically significant difference was found in medical students’ burnout or their compassion satisfaction in surgical or non-surgical specialty units by individual t-tests.