University hospitals as drivers of career success: an empirical study of the duration of promotion and promotion success of hospital physicians

BMC Medical Education

Ludwig Kuntz¹  Christiane Degen¹ 

[1] Department of Business Administration and Health Care Management, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne 50931, Germany

关键词: University hospitals;    Promotion;    Hospital physicians;    Career success;   

Others  :  866723
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-14-85

 received in 2012-11-13, accepted in 2014-04-10,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

German hospitals have a well-defined career structure for clinicians. In this hierarchical career system university hospital are stepping stones for career advancement. This longitudinal study investigates the impact of working in university hospitals on the career success of junior physicians and senior physicians.

Methods

Consideration of the career trajectories of 324 hospital physicians. Discrete-time event history analysis is used to study the influence of working in university hospitals on the chance of promotion from junior physician to senior physician and senior physician to chief physician. A comparison of medians provides information about the impact of working in university hospitals on the duration of promotion to senior and chief physician positions.

Results

Working in university hospitals has a negative impact for advancement to a senior physician position in terms of promotion duration (p = 0.005) and also in terms of promotion success, where a short time span of just 1–2 years in university hospitals has a negative effect (OR = 0.38, p < 0.01), while working there for a medium or long term has no significant effect. However, working in universities has a positive effect on the duration of promotion to a chief physician position (p = 0.079), and working in university hospitals for 3–4 years increases the chance of promotion to a chief physician position (OR = 4.02, p < 0.05), while working there > =7 years decreases this chance (OR = 0.27, p < 0.05). In addition, physicians have a higher chance of promotion to a chief physician position through career mobility when they come to the position from a university hospital.

Conclusion

Working at university hospitals has a career-enhancing effect for a senior physician with ambitions to become a chief physician. For junior physicians on the trajectory to a senior physician position, however, university hospitals are not drivers of career success.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Degen and Kuntz; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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