Anaesthesia manpower recruitment at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital -A survey of house officers

Abstract

A survey was conducted among housemen at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to find out young doc· tors ' al1itude towards the speciality of Anaesthesia. Out of 83 housemen contacted, there were 56 respondents. Out of the 56 respondents, 15 would consider specializing in anaesthesia and 29 would consider doing a rotation in anaesthesia. Reasons that were thought important in deterring doctors from anaesthesia were the heavy workload and stress in anaesthesia. Factors that were thought would increase interest in anaesthesia were facilities for intensive care and pain clinics and also the possibility of going abroad for part of the anaesthesia training. It is suggested that increased efforts are made to attract young doctors into the speciality of anaesthesia