Professional, scientific, and social life of cardiology specialists

A questionnaire-based study was designed to assess the perceptions of cardiology specialists in Turkey regarding the working conditions, scientific and social life, as well as cardiology training. This transverse cross-sectional study was carried out with the voluntary participation of 143 cardiology specialist (81.4%, male). A questionnaire consisting of 34 questions was used to evaluate professional and scientific lives as well as the social activity level of the participants. More than half of the participants (51%) had a working experience of > 10 years, and those with a preference for the fields of general cardiology, interventional cardiology, image-based cardiology, and arrhythmia represented 78.3%, 59.4%, 30.8%, and 10.5% of the study population, respectively. 53.1% of the cardiology specialists surveyed reported having participated in international multi-center trials as a co-investigator, and 80.5% reported being in the author list of publications included in Science Citation Index (SCI), SCI expanded, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). 70% of the cardiology specialists included in the study reported that they could spend adequate time on social activities.