Socioeconomic and personal variables effecting retention of medical officers

Abstract

The question of which factors influence career decision of medical officers in the military services provides the focus for this thesis. It addresses the question of how a myriad of socioeconomic and personal variables impact upon physician retention. Cross tabulation, multiple regression, and discriminant analysis are utilized to do a quantitative examination of the potential motivational factors involved in making career decisions. Both financial incentives and job components are found to be important variables affecting career decision of military physicians.