Table 1.
Survey of residency and career satisfaction experienced by Anglo‐American model emergency medicine residents in Japan
| A. Demographics |
| 1. Sex |
| 2. Age |
| 3. Practicing hospital |
| 4. Years in practice |
| 5. Years in practice of emergency medicine |
| 6. Qualification |
| 7. Current style of practice |
| 8. Shifting labor |
| 9. Number of patient visits in emergency department per year |
| 10. Number of ambulance visits per year |
| 11. Number of emergency physicians (attending physicians) |
| 12. Number of emergency medicine residents |
| 13. Work hours per week (excluding moonlighting) |
| 14. Income from emergency medicine (excluding moonlighting) |
| 15. Present marital status |
| 16. I have a child/children |
| The answer choices for questions B‐1 to B‐28 and C‐1 to C‐2 were presented in a Likert‐like scale and ranged from 1 (lowest grade) to 5 (highest grade). |
| B. Satisfaction |
| 1. Are you satisfied with your income? |
| 2. How high is the level of fatigue? |
| 3. Are you satisfied with your personal time? |
| 4. Are you satisfied with knowing enough? |
| 5. Are you satisfied with improvement of skill and knowledge through practice? |
| 6. Are you satisfied with opportunities to attend conferences? |
| 7. Are you satisfied with keeping up with medical literature? |
| 8. Is your residency program organized enough? |
| 9. Are you satisfied with the number of attending physicians? |
| 10. Are you satisfied with bedside education by attending physicians? |
| 11. Are you satisfied with measures of clinical problem solving? |
| 12. Is this work condition available in my current position: Teaching opportunity |
| 13. Is this work condition available in my current position: Research opportunity |
| 14. Is this work condition available in my current position: Administrative opportunity |
| 15. Is this work condition available in my current position: Opportunity for subspecialization |
| 16. Do you think of emergency medicine is one of the specialties? |
| 17. Do you have role models? |
| 18. Are you satisfied with subspecialty support? |
| 19. Are you satisfied with hospital administrators? |
| 20. Are you satisfied with emergency department administrators? |
| 21. Are you satisfied with patient volume? |
| 22. Are you satisfied with working hours? |
| 23. Is this work condition available in my current position: Defined working hours |
| 24. How much are you concerned about medical malpractice suits? |
| 25. How high is the level of stress with patients and their families? |
| 26. How high is the level of subspecialty support? |
| 27. How high is the level of stress with co‐medicals? |
| 28. How high is the level of overall stress? |
| C. General Questions |
| 1. Overall, how satisfied are you with your career in emergency medicine? |
| 2. Overall, how satisfied are you with your emergency medicine residency training? |
| 3. If you had to decide whether to select the specialty of emergency medicine, what would you decide? (Yes or No) |
| 4. Would you switch the specialty? (Yes or No) |