1. Personal life and working conditions of trainees and young specialists in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases in Europe: a questionnaire survey
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Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Maurizio Sanguinetti, D. Dušek, K. Dedić, Chrysanthi Skevaki, J. Cortez, Evelina Tacconelli, Mario Poljak, Erlangga Yusuf, David S. Y. Ong, Alejandro Martín-Quirós, Polona J. Maver, and ESCMID
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Microbiology (medical) ,Infectious Diseases ,Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,020205 medical informatics ,Health Personnel ,education ,Specialty ,Breastfeeding ,Personal life ,02 engineering and technology ,Burnout ,Communicable Diseases ,Settore MED/07 - MICROBIOLOGIA E MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA ,Likert scale ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Sex Factors ,Nursing ,Physicians ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,clinical microbiology (CM) ,Biology ,Infectious Disease Medicine ,Geography ,business.industry ,Questionnaire ,General Medicine ,Mobbing ,Europe ,Family medicine ,Quality of Life ,Original Article ,Female ,Human medicine ,business ,Specialization - Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the balance between the personal and professional lives of trainees and young European specialists in clinical microbiology (CM) and infectious diseases (ID), and determine differences according to gender, country of training, workplace and specialty. The Steering Committee of the Trainee Association of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) devised a questionnaire survey consisting, beyond the demographic questions, of nine yes/no questions, 11 Likert scale self-evaluations and one open-response item on parenthood, working conditions, quality of life, alcohol consumption and burnout. This anonymous survey in English was held between April and July 2015 among European CM/ID trainees and young specialists (
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- 2017