Swiss Final Year Students 2008-09
Choices of specialty and professional pratice - Survey 2009 / Final Year Students 2008-09
Answer rate:
- Geneva: 45% (49/110) (Survey administered to 5th year students)
- Lausanne: 62% (69/110)
- Bern: 65% (93/143)
- Zürich: 50% (111/221)
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=26/49 (62%)
- Lausanne: N=60/69 (87%)
- Bern: N=90/93 (97%)
- Zürich: N=109/111 (98%)
- 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=49/110 (45%)
- Lausanne: N=69/111 (62%)
- Bern: N=93/143 (65%)
- Zürich: N=111/221 (50%)
- A = Clinical practices
- B = Academic career
- C = Non-academic career
- D = Undecided
- E = Other
Choice of professional practice
Geneva: N=37 / Lausanne: N=52 / Bern: N=70 / Zürich: N=91 (Undecided not included: GE N=12, LA N=17, BE N=23, ZU N=20)
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 = 15/37 (45%)
- Lausanne: N = 7/52 (13%)
- Bern: N = 15/70 (21%)
- Zürich: N = 24/91 (26%)
- 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 = 19/37 (51%)
- Lausanne: N = 40/52 (77%)
- Bern: N = 54/70 (77%)
- Zürich: N = 65/91 (71%)
- 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 = 49/110 (45%)
- Lausanne: N = 69/111 (62%)
- Bern: N = 93/143 (65%)
- Zürich: N = 111/221 (50%)
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 ...)