Investigation of association between physician career choice and own socioeconomic status using physician cohort.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26860455
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Medical and hospital managemen
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	MATSUI Hiroki 東京大学, 大学院医学系研究科(医学部), 助教 (70608794)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords	医療政策 / 医師キャリアパス / 医療政策学 / 医師専門性 / 医療アウトカム / キャリア / 医師需給 / コホート調査 / コンピュータ支援型自記式調査
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In this study, the author investigated two stage questions. First, we figure out whether a specialist physician staffing improves patient's outcomes using large clinical database and physician cohort in Japan. Second, we conducted web-based questionnaire and exploratory analyzed association between physicians socioeconomic status and career choices. As a result, we figure out that specialist physician staffing improved patient outcome in cerebral infarction patients. In web-based questionnaire result, we found that physicians socioeconomic status might be associated with physicians career choice. Further research is required to investigate the factor associate physicain selection of a specific field of a specialist.