Swiss Final Year Students - Surveys 2007 & 2008
Choices of specialty and professional pratice
Answer rate:
- Geneva: N = 161/201 (80%) (Survey administered to 5th year students)
- Lausanne: N = 150/210 (71%)
- Bern: N = 167/304 (55%)
- Zürich: N = 202/379 (54%)
Choice of specialty – Main specialties
The figures below are based on the total number of students who indicated having made a specialty choice:
- Geneva: N=86/161 (53%)
- Lausanne: N=96/150 (64%)
- Bern: N=130/167 (78%)
- Zürich: N=159/202 (79%)
- A = Internal Medicine
- B = Surgery
- C = Pediatrics
- D = General, Family, Community Medicine
- E = Gynecology / Obstetrics
- F = Psychiatry
Choice of professional practice
The figures below are based on the questionnaire total number of answers:
- Geneva: N=161/201 (80%)
- Lausanne: N=150/210 (71%)
- Bern: N=167/306 (55%)
- Zürich: N=202/379 (54%)
Note: a few students have checked more than one choice.
- A = Clinical practices
- B = Academic career
- C = Non-academic career
- D = Undecided
Choice of professional practice
Geneva: N=124 / Lausanne: N=125 / Bern: N=125 / Zürich: N=163 (Undecided not included: GE N=37, LAU N=25, BE N=42, ZU N=39)
A – Academic vs non-academic career
The figures below are based on the total number of students indicating an Academic or Non-academic career:
- Geneva: N = 53/124 (43%)
- Lausanne: N = 32/125 (26%)
- Bern: N = 56/125 (45%)
- Zürich: N = 49/163 (31%)
- A: Academic career - Teaching, research, clinical care
- B: Academic career - Teaching, research, basic sciences
- C: Non-academic career - Clinical medical sciences
- D: Non-academic career - Basic medical sciences
B – Clinical practice career
The figures below are based on the total number of students indicating a Clinical Practice career:
- Geneva: N = 94/124 (76%)
- Lausanne: N = 101/125 (81%)
- Bern: N = 135/125 (93%)
- Zürich: N = 151/163 (93%)
- A: In group of 3 or more physicians
- B: Employed in a hospital
- C: Partnership with an other physician
- D: Solo practice
- E: In a "Managed care" group
Choice of professional practice: Type of practices
The figures below are based on the questionnaire total number of answers:
- Geneva: N = 161/201 (80%)
- Lausanne: N = 150/210 (71%)
- Bern: N = 167/306 (55%)
- Zürich: N = 202/379 (54%)
Note: a few students have checked more than one choice.
- A: Providing first encounter health or illness appraisal, preventive education and interventions; episodic and long-term comprehensive care of a wide variety of medical problems; primarily office-based. (Ex: family medicine, general medicine ...)
- B: Providing episodic or long-term care of a limited number of medical problems that may include instrumentation and technical interventions; mix of ambulatory and hospital-based practice. (Ex: internal medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology ...)
- C: Performing highly skilled and specialized therapeutic techniques or procedures; primarily hospital-based with some office activity. (Ex: orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology ...)
- D: Performing specialized diagnostic or technical procedures; basic or applied laboratory research; primarily hospital-based. (Ex: radiology, pathology ...)