Consideration to the motivation of Mother doctors by the spherical SOM and DIM methods

Abstract

The professional career of female medical doctors is influenced by various life events that can lead to early retirement: marriage, childbirth, childcare, nursing, mammy track etc. In recent years, efforts have been launched to have female doctors resume their clinical practice. In order to find clues to solve the problem, we used su rvey data from doctors who became mothers and identified their motivation using the spherical SOM and DIM mode methods.