Research Catalog

Title

Practice patterns of young physicians, 1987 [electronic resource] : (United States).

Publication

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

• American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79141035

Summary

This four-part data collection was designed to investigate the factors that influence the career decisions of young physicians and the characteristics of their practices. Part 1 comprises responses from the Young Physicians Survey (YPS) and merged data from the American Medical Association (AMA) Masterfile and the Association of American Medical Colleges' Student and Applicant Information Management System (SAIMS) database. The YPS interviewed physicians below 40 years of age who recently completed graduate medical training and were in their early years of practice. These physicians were queried about their graduate medical training, perceptions of the medical profession, current practice arrangements, career decisions, family background, patient care activities, and current income and expenses. To obtain information on current practice arrangements, respondents were questioned about the practices they worked in, including who owned the practices, the number of physicians in each practice, specialities or subspecialities practiced, usual fees for selected services, percentages of revenues from HMOs, PPOs, and IPAs, and percentages of patients who were Medicare patients, had no health insurance coverage, or were poor, Black, Hispanic, severely physically disabled, or chronically mentally ill. Questions on career decisions asked respondents about factors that influenced their career choices, such as reasons for working in multiple practices, reasons for leaving past practices, and reasons for deciding in favor of or against self-employment. Information on family background elicited by the survey includes the respondent's race, marital status, and educational debt, parents' income class and education, number of children living in the respondent's home, and whether the respondent's spouse or parents were physicians. Questions on patient care activities included questions on the number of hours spent providing uncompensated health care to the poor, and the number of hours spent with patients in a variety of settings, such as the office, emergency rooms, hospital outpatient clinics, and operating rooms. Information from the AMA Masterfile and the SAIMS database includes board certification status, AMA membership, school and year of graduation, Medical College Admission Test scores, primary undergraduate institution, most recent grade point averages, place of birth, number of acceptances to United States medical schools, parents' occupations, preferred medical speciality, and preferred practice setting. Part 2 comprises responses from the AMA's Socioeconomic Monitoring System (SMS), a semiannual survey of nonfederal physicians that collected data on topics similar to those in the YPS, such as practice ownership, hours spent seeing patients in various settings, income, expenses, and opinions on practice procedures. The SMS data can be used for comparative analyses of young, prime, and senior physicians. Parts 3 and 4 contain additional data that can be linked to cases in Part 1. Part 3, ZIP Code Data, contains estimates of the composition of the population residing in the ZIP code area of the YPS respondents' main practice. Also included in the ZIP code file are estimates of household characteristics and estimates of the composition of the physician population. Part 4, Verbatim Responses to Open-Ended Questions, contains answers to questions asked in the YPS in machine-readable ASCII text format.

Series Statement

ICPSR ; 9277

Uniform Title

ICPSR (Series) ; 9277.

Subjects

• Physicians
• Medical school
• Occupations
• Ownership
• Household composition
• Age groups
• Physicians > United States > Statistics
• Education
• Outpatient care
• African Americans
• Medical specialization
• Educational costs
• Health Maintenance Organizations
• Medical students
• Health care services
• Medical practice
• Demographic characteristics
• Children
• Parents
• Population characteristics
• Family background
• Medicine > Practice > United States > Statistics
• Medical education
• Career choice
• Health care facilities
• Health care
• Patient care
• Certification
• Disabled persons
• Undergraduate programs
• Test scores
• Zip code areas
• dataset > 1987-1987
• Graduation
• Emergency services
• Health insurance
• Group medical practice
• Physician practice

Genre/Form

• dataset – 1987-1987.
• dataset.

Note

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on January 9, 2008).

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

File Type (note)

• Extent of collection: 4 data files + machine-readable documentation (text and PDF).

Event (note)

• Date(s) of collection: April 9, 1987-November 21, 1987.
• Time period: April 9, 1987-November 21, 1987.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: United States.

Cite As (note)

• American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation. PRACTICE PATTERNS OF YOUNG PHYSICIANS, 1987: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Chicago, IL: American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998.

Funding (note)

• Funding agency: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Grant number: 11234.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Data format: LRECL.

Terms of Use (note)

• Restrictions: to preserve respondent confidentiality, certain identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination. Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that preserve the confidentiality of individual respondents can be obtained from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies.

Contents

Codebook: [pt. 1] Codebook for part 1, Young physicians survey, and part 2, Socioeconomic monitoring system study (1st ICPSR ed.) -- [pt. 2] Codebook for part 3, Zip code data, and part 4, Verbatim responses to open-ended questions.

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library