The Study of Association between Professional Performance and Personality of Physicians in Teaching Hospitals

• Main Author: 施佳邦
• Other Authors: 許光宏
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81110488254701248153

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 醫務管理學研究所 === 91 === Medical physicians who are the key players of hospital operation handle all the medical activities and are granted as precious property of medical institutes. Therefore, the issues on managing these highly professional personnel have become a crucial point in management of human resource of hospitals. The selection of a physician whose personality fits the organizational culture is important. Accordingly, the policy makers will insure the regulations to work well for each physician contributing to promote institutional performance. All regulations will direct an attending physician to have high motivation of improving both professional competence and quality of medical services with a mechanism of positive incentives. This study aims to investigate the relationship of the Big Five Model, five dimensions of personality such as Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion and Emotional stability, with the medical and professional outcomes of attending physicians in a medical center of northern Taiwan. The study subjects were stratified with departments and randomly selected from the sample hospital. The duration of this study was from January 2000 to December 2002. The analyses were doubly based on cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. Major findings of this investigation were three folds. 1.All dimensions of Big Five Model except for emotional stability have shown positive relation with physician performance. The emotional stability was negatively related to the performance of medical outcomes. 2.The most significant factors that associated with professional performance of a physician were length of employed with current job and professorships being in teaching hospitals. The results have implicated that the professional experience of a physician is resulted from long-term accumulations. 3.The analysis also demonstrated that physician performance was relatively high in persons involved with administrative works, number of committee appointed, and experience of being received on-job trainings.