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Community Volunteerism of US Physicians

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Grande, David, Armstrong, Katrina·2008·Journal of General Internal Medicine
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0811-xPMC PMC2596493
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Background Many physicians and professional leaders agree that community participation is an important professional role for physicians. Volunteerism has also received increasing attention in the national agenda for social change. Yet little is known about physicians' community volunteer activities.Objective To measure levels of community volunteerism among US physicians.Design and participants Analysis of the 2003 Current Population Survey (CPS) Volunteer Supplement, a cross-sectional, nationally-representative, in-person and telephone survey of 84,077 adult citizens, including 316 physicians.Measurements The primary outcome was whether the respondent had volunteered in the prior 12 months and if so the total number of hours. The level of community volunteer activity was compared between physicians, lawyers and the general public. In addition, predictors of physician volunteerism were identified.Results According to the survey, 39% of physicians had volunteered in their community in the past 12 months compared to 30% of the general public (p = 0.002) and 57% of lawyers (p < 0.001). After multivariate adjustment, physicians were half as likely as the general public (OR = 0.52, p < 0.001) or lawyers (OR = 0.44, p < 0.001) to have volunteered. Physicians were more likely to have volunteered if they worked part-time (OR = 3.35, p = 0.03), variable hours (OR = 3.16, p = 0.03), or between 45-54 hours per week (OR = 3.15, p = 0.02) compared to a 35-44 hour work week.Conclusions Despite highly favorable physician attitudes toward volunteerism in prior surveys, less than half of US physicians have volunteered with community organizations in the past year. Renewed attention to understanding and increasing physician engagement in community volunteer work is needed.

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  • Few physicians maintain an advocacy role after training, despite an understanding of the importance and desire to be public advocates.

    “Given this decline, it is not surprising that few physicians maintain an advocacy role after training, despite an understanding of the importance and desire to be public advocates. 10, 11”

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    The Discussion reports that nearly 95% of physicians viewed community participation as important, yet fewer than half had volunteered in the prior year. The paper measures community volunteerism, not whether physicians maintained an advocacy role after training or desired to be public advocates; those parts of the claim are unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  1. American Medical Association. AMA principles of medical ethics < http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2512.html >. Accessed 2008 September 11, Chicago, IL, 2001.
  2. Rothman DJ, O’Toole T. Physicians and the body politic: Ideas for an open society. Occasional Papers from OSI-US Programs. 2002;2:2–5.

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Authors
Grande, D., & Armstrong, K.
Affiliations
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (US)
Corresponding author
Grande, David
ORCID
Venue
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2008-10-07
Volume
23
Issue
12
Pages
1987-1991
ISSN
  • 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
  • 1525-1497
DOI
10.1007/s11606-008-0811-x
PMC
PMC2596493
OpenAlex
W2034274641
Cited by
50
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
FWCI
6.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • University of Pennsylvania
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Sciences › Education › Service-Learning and Community Engagement
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Keywords
community volunteering, physicians, lawyers, volunteer hours, part-time work, working hours, community participation
MeSH terms
Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Physicians, Residence Characteristics, United States, Volunteers

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