Overseas Experience and Requests in Intensive Care Doctors

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the overseas experiences of our intensive care unit doctors and to determine out the reasons for our doctors who couldnot go and what support they wanted. Materials and Methods: The created questionnaire was delivered to the doctors via the internet. The survey consisted of three main parts. They were asked in the first part, sociodemographic characteristics; in the second part, how long they went abroad, how they choose the center, from whom they received support; in the third part, the reasons why our physicians who donot have been abroad experienced could not go, on which subject/center they want to gain professional experience, and how to get support in this regard. Results: 31.4% of the 156 participants had professional abroad experience. 55% of those who went stated that they found the center with their own efforts, and very few (13 people, 26%) stated that they received support from the education/administrative unit of the institution they worked during the admission. In academically titled physicians, the level of foreign language and the importance given to education abroad were quite high. It was determined that the frequency of reading articles was correlated only with the duration of the profession. The most common reasons for physicians who couldnot get a chance to go was not being able to find a clinic/scholarship program to go to/not being informed (63.5%) and high accommodation/living fees (48.4%). Conclusion: Professional overseas experience has a high contribution to our physicians and our health system. The biggest obstacle for our physicians who cannot attend is not being able to find a center/clinic to go to. We think that the institutions/associations to which they are affiliated can support this issue.

Keywords

• critical care
• overseas experience
• foreign language