Table 1 Participant personal and professional characteristics, by generation
| Â | Generation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Demographic | Boomers | Gen X | Millennials | p-valuec | |
114 (36.7) | 137 (34) | 118 (29.3) | |||
Age | Mean ± SD | 61.13 ± 5.06 | 44.73 ± 4.63 | 30.19 ± 4.05 | N/A |
Age range | 54–72 | 38–53 | 24–37 | ||
Gender | Woman | 20 (17.5) | 54 (39.4) | 54 (45.8) |  < 0.001 |
Man | 94 (82.5) | 83 (60.6) | 64 (54.2) | ||
Marital Status | Married/domestic partnership | 100 (87.7) | 115 (83.9) | 42 (35.6) |  < 0.001 |
Single (never married) | 9 (7.9) | 16 (11.7) | 74 (62.7) | ||
Divorced or widowed | 5 (4.4) | 6 (4.4) | 2 (1.7) | ||
Married with kids | 99 (99.0) | 105 (91.3) | 23 (54.8) |  < 0.001 | |
Married without kids | 1 (1.0) | 10 (8.7) | 19 (45.2) | ||
Children | Yes | 103 (90.4) | 111 (81.0) | 24 (20.3) |  < 0.001 |
No | 11 (9.6) | 26 (19.0) | 94 (79.7) | ||
Number of Children | 1 | 9 (8.7) | 6 (5.4) | 10 (41.7) |  < 0.001 |
2 | 47 (45.6) | 49 (44.1) | 9 (37.5) | ||
 ≥ 3 | 47 (45.6) | 56 (50.5) | 5 (20.8) | ||
Age when had first child (quartile) |  ≤ 29 | 37 (35.9) | 31 (27.9) | 12 (50.0) | 0.098 |
30–34 | 38 (36.9) | 54 (48.6) | 10 (41.7) | ||
 ≥ 35 | 28 (27.2) | 26 (23.4) | 2 (8.3) | ||
Professional | |||||
 Employment Status | Employed | 108 (94.7) | 136 (99.3) | 115 (97.5) | 0.092 |
Unemployed/Retired | 6 (5.3) | 1 (0.7) | 3 (2.5) | ||
 Contract Type | Full-time | 88 (81.5) | 117 (86.0) | 108 (93.9) | 0.019 |
Part-time | 20 (18.5) | 19 (14.0) | 7 (6.1) | ||
 Specialty | Emergency medicine | 0 (0) | 8 (5.8) | 10 (8.5) |  < 0.001 |
Surgery | 25 (21.9) | 15 (10.9) | 6 (5.1) | ||
Psychiatry | 3 (2.6) | 3 (2.2) | 4 (3.4) | ||
Pediatrics & adolescent medicine | 14 (12.3) | 19 (13.9) | 7 (5.9) | ||
Pathology & laboratory medicine | 7 (6.1) | 7 (5.1) | 3 (2.5) | ||
Otolaryngology & Head and Neck surgery | 3 (2.6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | ||
Ophthalmology | 5 (4.4) | 3 (2.2) | 2 (1.7) | ||
Neurology | 3 (2.6) | 3 (2.2) | 5 (4.2) | ||
Obstetrics/Gynecology | 6 (5.3) | 8 (5.8) | 3 (2.5) | ||
Dermatology | 1 (0.9) | 6 (4.4) | 2 (1.7) | ||
Diagnostic Radiology | 8 (7.0) | 5 (3.6) | 6 (5.1) | ||
Family medicine | 9 (7.9) | 15 (10.9) | 4 (3.4) | ||
Internal Medicine | 24 (21.1) | 42 (30.7) | 34 (28.8) | ||
Anesthesiology | 4 (3.5) | 2 (1.5) | 2 (1.7) | ||
General medicine | 2 (1.8) | 1 (0.7) | 30 (25.4) | ||
 Specialty Type | Surgicala | 33 (28.9) | 18 (13.1) | 8 (6.8) |  < 0.001 |
Non-Surgicalb | 81 (71.1) | 119 (86.9) | 110 (93.2) | ||
 Nights on call per week | Yes | 62 (65.3) | 85 (65.4) | 61 (64.2) | 0.981 |
 Primary Practice Setting | Academic medical center | 46 (42.6) | 77 (56.6) | 77 (67.0) |  < 0.001 |
Private practice | 44 (40.7) | 46 (33.8) | 11 (9.6) | ||
Other | 18 (16.7) | 13 (9.6) | 27 (23.5) | ||
 Current Academic Rank (Academic medical center participants only) | Instructor | 0 (0) | 3 (3.9) | 3 (3.9) |  < 0.001 |
Assistant Professor | 8 (17.8) | 26 (33.8) | 15 (19.5) | ||
Associate Professor | 13 (28.9) | 28 (36.4) | 1 (1.3) | ||
Full professor | 23 (51.1) | 16 (20.8) | 0 (0) | ||
Other | 1 (2.2) | 4 (5.2) | 58 (75.3) | ||
Spouse | |||||
 Employment Status | Employed | 48 (48.0) | 79 (68.7) | 34 (72.3) | 0.002 |
 Contract Type | Full-time | 31 (64.6) | 55 (69.6) | 30 (88.2) | 0.050 |
Part-time | 17 (35.4) | 24 (30.4) | 4 (11.8) | ||
 Current Profession | Medical Doctor | 21 (21.0) | 31 (27.0) | 18 (38.3) | 0.044 |
Other Healthcare Profession | 20 (20.0) | 18 (15.7) | 8 (17.0) | ||
Non-Medical Professional | 38 (38.0) | 51 (44.3) | 20 (42.6) | ||
Other | 21 (21.0) | 15 (13.0) | 1 (2.1) | ||