nesthesiology or surgery: Is specialist's satisfaction the same from these two specialties?

Choosing a specialty by young medical students is difficult and stressful. Aknowledge of the characteristics of a specialty from its specialists is very helpful. In this systematic study, we compare the characteristics of the two specialties – anesthesiology and surgery regarding stress, satisfaction, hope for future and personal liking. 120 specialist were selected in a cross–sectional randomized study in two congress. They were divided into two groups, each group comprising of 60 Specialists. They were asked to fill a concealed self - assessmentquestionnaire. The variable included demographic data, stress level, satisfaction, future hope and current and future aspects of their specialty. Two groups (anesthesiologists and surgeans) were matched for demograpic, age and sex. There were no significant differeces between various characteristics of two groups except for higher stress level among anesthesiologists (p <0.05).There was no correlation between duration time of occupation and level of satisfaction in the two groups (r = 0.325). Duration time of occupation was inversely correlated to stress level (r = -0.78). Current jab satisfaction was significantly different between anesthesiology and surgery (p<0.05), however future jab satisfaction was not. Job satisfaction is almost equall in anesthesiologists and surgeans. Duration time of occupation do not increase job satisfaction in any of two specialties. Anesthesiologists harbor more stress and less current satisfaction compare to surgeons,but their future hope is the same for the future.