Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: Residents are considered key elements in promotion and development of health and education performance. Thus, specifying factors inducing resident’s job satisfaction is of high importance. The aim of this study was to determine residents’ job-education satisfaction rate in Guilan University of Medical Sciences (GUMS).

  Method: In a descriptive study, job-educational satisfaction rate of 176 residents in GUMS was measured using questionnaire based on Herzberg Theory. SPSS software ver.16 for data analysis was employed.

  Results: The mean age of residents was 31 ± 3 and most of them were male, married, native and first or second year assistants. Regarding payment, training and occupational motivation, most of residents scored low and in other areas they got medium. A significant relation was found between job satisfaction and job experience (p=0.035) and mandatory medical plant (p=0.026) but in other areas it was not significant.

  Conclusion: Since most of residents (% 83) seem to be dissatisfied with their salary, residential training and job motivation, special remedies are necessary to fulfill these drawbacks.