SELF-ASSESSMENT DOCTORS OF VARIOUS SPECIALTIES OF THEIR SOCIAL STATUS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
To study the physicians, surgeons and psychiatrists opinion about their social status and some aspects of profes-sional activity they conducted anonymous survey of 103 physicians working in St. Petersburg GBUZ «Urban Mariinsky hospital» and GBUZ Astrakhan region "Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital». It was found that the majority of physicians (73, 6%) are not satisfied or not to the full satisfied for his work so 17, 5% would like to leave medicine. The main reason for disaffection, regardless of the medical profession and residence is low salaries. Low salary, the amount of which does not meet the needs of 70, 0% of the doctors, forces most to seek additional sources of income, as in medicine so outside it, which leads to the overwork and cuts the time of rest. Despite the presence of additional sources of income, 42, 8% regard their family financial situation as poor. In this situation, the main motivating factors in the professional activities of doctors are the motives of social signi-ficance of their work (moral satisfaction, the desire to benefit the people, the ability to do what you do best). Yet the share of physicians for whom socially important motives are the leading ones in their professional activity does not depend on the specialty and place of residence.