Abstract
to evaluate the perception of quality of life among residents in the first year of Medical Residency compared to the one among residents in other years of training, given the importance of this issue in health. a comparative and cross-sectional analytical study performed from February to April 2016 in a reference tertiary trauma hospital in Brazil. Resident physicians were voluntarily submitted to an online questionnaire on quality of life (called WHOQOL-BREF), validated by World Health Organization (WHO). They were divided into two groups: first year of residency (R1) and other years of residency. ninety-seven residents of several medical specialties answered the questionnaire. Of these, 59 were men and 38 were women. The mean age was 27.7 years. First-year residents accounted for 49.5% of the interviewees. Overall, quality of life was considered regular in both groups. In relation to psychological domain, there was a significant difference between the R1 group (with worse scores in this domain) and the non-R1 group (p<0.0000001). first-year residents' quality of life is worse than the one of the residents from other years, having a significant variation of positive feelings, learning capacity, memory, thought and concentration, self-esteem, body image and appearance, and negative feelings.
Highlights
After finishing undergraduate studies, the option for a Medical Residency Program requires extensive analysis like personal interests, personality, skills, and lifestyle in order to choose a career for competitiveness, and for professional performance[1]
Quality of life was considered regular in both groups, with average ranging from 3.0 to 3.9 (Figure 2)
In relation to psychological domain, there was a significant difference between the R1 group and the non-R1 group, with p
Summary
The option for a Medical Residency Program requires extensive analysis like personal interests, personality, skills, and lifestyle in order to choose a career for competitiveness, and for professional performance[1]. Known as Halstedian Training Model, the first formal Medical Residency Program was established in the late XIX Century by William Stewart Halsted at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This program consisted of training high-quality surgeons with academic assignments. Haslted took into account concepts of bedside rounds, deployed by Osler at the same hospital, and practices he had observed in Europe[2,3]. Since starting from this model, numerous possibilities of specialization have been established in the world. In Brazil, there are at least 40 medical residency options, according to Ministerio da Cultura e Educação (Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Education)[4], each of them with particularities, on the study field and practice, and on the residents’ quality of life and stress during this period of life
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