Wanted: pediatric nephrologists! - why trainees are not choosing pediatric nephrology

Publication Date

2014

Journal Title

Ren Fail

Abstract

A workforce crisis for many pediatric specialties, particularly nephrology, is due to growing retirement rates, attrition during training, and retention difficulties. To obtain specific information regarding pediatric nephrology trainee shortages, we administered two cross-sectional surveys to non-renal pediatric subspecialty fellows and pediatric nephrology program directors. We characterized the fellows' experiences with nephrology and the program directors' experiences with their fellows as well as their outcomes in the last 10 years. We analyzed responses from 531 non-renal fellows (14.4% response rate). Overall, 317 (60%) fellows rated nephrology as difficult, particularly women (65.4% vs. 49.5%, p

Volume Number

36

Issue Number

8

Pages

1340-1344

Document Type

Article

Status

Faculty

Facility

School of Medicine

Primary Department

Nephrology

PMID

25065378

DOI

10.3109/0886022x.2014.937671

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