RESUMEN
@#Families where both parents are physicians may face greater challenges with regard to childcare due to long and demanding work schedules. This study presents a profile of dual- physician families with young children, describes their childcare arrangements, and examines the effect on their medical practice.@*SUBJECTS@#Dual-physician families with at least one child aged 7 years and below.@*METHOD@#Semi-structured interview was used to determine the participants’ age, type of practice, number and age of children, living and childcare arrangements.@*RESULTS@#Forty physicians, 27 to 39 years (Mean = 34.03 years) were included. Twenty were medical specialists, 18 were in training, and two were general practitioners. Sixteen families had two children each, age ranging from three weeks to seven years (Mean=2.84). Four families had children with special needs, two with autism and two with speech delay. The number of working hours per week ranged from 11 to 119 hours, with a mean of 56.48 hours. Training physicians had a mean of 76.83 hours while the specialists had a mean of 39.82 hours. Extended family members, especially grandparents, were a major source of childcare support aside from live-in paid caregivers. Thirteen families lived with or near their extended families. In two families, the children lived with the grandparents, away from their parents. Five physicians, all female, reported decreasing the number of working hours to care for their children while six others, four of them female, did not pursue or delayed pursuit of further training to care for their children.@*CONCLUSION@#The study suggests that childcare concerns may affect physicians’ practice patterns and may have an impact on healthcare. The provision of quality, on-site childcare services to provide support to dual-physician and other dualincome families is recommended.