J Korean Surg Soc.  2001 Jan;60(1):103-106.

Survey of Surgeon's Opinions for Name of Surgery

• Jung SH
• Jeong YJ
• Yu HC
• Kim JC
• Kang NP

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study was designed to determine surgeon's opinions on the name of the Department of Surgery in Korea.
METHODS
This report is a survey of 797 randomly selected questionnaire (28.8%) from among 2,804 submitted by members of the Korea Surgical Society. The questionnaire consisted of 16 questions.
RESULTS
Among the respondents, 70.4% were in the 4th or 5th decade of age, and 51.9% were working for private clinics. Among the names for the Department of Surgery in Korea, 48.9% included the word Surgery and 44.2% the word General surgery. Respondents who consider that we have to make use the unified Korean name of the Department of Surgery were 90.1%.
CONCLUSION
The name of our department is considered as a common issue by most members. Most members insist that as much as possible, we should make use of the unified name Department of Surgery. We confirm that it is important to lead the public to a better understanding of our department by means of a far-reaching public information and that policy must be made and carried out by the Korea Surgical Society.

Keyword

Surgery; Name; Questionnaire

MeSH Terms

Surveys and Questionnaires
Korea
Surveys and Questionnaires