Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life

The MABEL Survey will track a random stratified sample of around 15 000 doctors over an initial four year period. This will include GPs, private specialists, hospital doctors and doctors in specialist training. The first wave of the survey is planned for May 2008.

This landmark study is of an enormous national significance for the following reasons:

Continuing medical workforce shortages across Australia and increasing demands on the working and family lives of doctors are unsustainable

At the moment there is a lack of understanding of the decisions and trade-offs doctors make between their working and family lives throughout their career

MABEL is the first longitudinal survey of doctors in Australia and will enable researchers to examine the effect of changes in circumstances on the balance between the professional and personal lives of doctors

This study will provide important evidence relevant to the development of effective policies to support the medical workforce

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Contacts

enquiries@mabel.org.au

Professor Anthony Scott – a.scott@unimelb.edu.au

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Dr Catherine Joyce – Catherine.joyce@med.monash.edu

Department of General Practice, Monash University

Professor John Humphreys – john.humphreys@med.monash.edu.au

School of Rural Health, Monash University

A/Professor Guyonne Kalb – g.kalb@unimelb.edu.au

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne