A survey of hematologists on compulsory health service in Turkey

Abstract

The quality of health care is closely related to the level of physician job satisfaction, which depends on several factors, including working conditions, income, hospital resources and workload [1-3]. Compulsory health service was instituted by the Turkish Ministry of Health in 2005 (www.saglik.gov.tr), which is a postgraduate program that requires practitioners and specialists to work 300-600 days in underserved regions of the country.