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Family Practice Vol. 5, No. 2, 83-93
© Oxford University Press 1988

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Satisfaction and Job Stress in General Practice

ALAN BRANTHWAITE and ALISTAIR ROSS*

Department of Psychology, University Of Keele Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England
*Department of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Keele Keele, Staffordshire, England

Correspondence to Dr Branthwaite

This paper investigates sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in general practice and identifies pressures and difficulties experienced by general practitioners in their work. The study revealed wide spread job satisfaction based on three separate (but independent) aspects of general practice: clinical, psychosocial or managerial. Despite this, significant pressures were experienced and, in common with previous studies over the last 20 years, this research found continuing problems affecting young general practitioners in particular. The main pressures currently experienced were uncertainty and insecurity about work, isolation, poor relationships with other doctors, disillusion with the role of the general practitioner, and an awareness of changing demands. These pressures were related to experience in general practice, amount of study leave and practice organization. Like previous studies, it also appears from this research that continuing education could play an important role in attenuating these diffi culties. It is argued that the emphasis should be on developing support, confidence and better contacts between general practitioners, as well as teaching knowledge and skills.


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