title: Assessment of medical residents' satisfaction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Modern medical education is focused on students, and it is necessary to assess its level of satisfaction. A questionnaire was validated and we then conducted a study about the educational satisfaction level of medical residents of the Hospital General of Mexico.
  
  
  METHODS
  An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective study was conducted. A questionnaire of 21 items was validated and then applied to a representative sample of medical residents. Each item was evaluated with a scale from 0 to 10 and then gathered in groups: 0-5 = poor, 6-7 = average, 8 = good, 9 = very good, and 10 = excellent. Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out using SPSS v.17.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The questionnaire had internal validity with Cronbach's alpha >0.91 by item. Included in the study were 355 medical residents representing 37 different specialties. The performance perception of the ìheadî professors showed a wide heterogeneity: excellent (23.7%), very good (20.6%), good (16.9%), average (23.1%), poor (15.8%). Fourth-year residents and upward valued the educational performance higher (p = 0.001) as well as medical/surgical residents (p = 0.02). Intermediate-level residents valued the professor higher (p = 0.001), similar to students who were married or living with a partner (p <0.001). Upon contrasting the evaluation of the teacher's performance with the overall course performance, a linear, direct and significant correlation was obtained with Spearman's correlation coefficient = 0.78 and regression coefficient (p <0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found a wide range of heterogeneity of results. Performance of the professors was the basic component to judge the quality of the residents' courses.
authors.affiliation: Dirección de Educación y Capacitación en Salud, Hospital General de México (HGM), Secretaría de Salud. México, D. F., Mexico. drjfg@prodigy.net.mx
authors.forename: José Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: González-Martínez
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García-García
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Rosario Arnaud-Viñas
authors.forename: Enna Gabriela
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Arámbula-Morales
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uriega-González Plata
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mendoza-Guerrero
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003479:Curriculum; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D008800:Mexico; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D058996:Quality Improvement; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult