Satisfaction and Creative Inclination in a Group of British General Practitioners

Levels of satisfaction and inclination toward creative clinical medicine were measured in a group of British general practitioners. These attitudes were chosen for measurement because of their assumed effect on present quality of patient care and on future career choice of the field of primary medical care. Forty of 50 general practitioners selected at random from the Nottinghamshire registry completed a questionnaire administered by either the author or the physician himself. Findings included: 1) a significant positive correlation between creative inclination and satisfaction; 2) an extensive awareness of the possibility of creativity within the daily practice of medicine; 3) a higher level of creative inclination and satisfaction among those who sensed the possibilities of creativity in practice; and 4) only weak association of age, duration of training, activities outside of practice, daily patient load, and size of practice with creative inclination and satisfaction. These findings offer suggestions for the training of primary care professionals

Family medicine · Group (periodic table) · Patient satisfaction · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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