Curriculum Evaluation

Swiss Final Year Students

Choice of specialty and professional pratice - Survey 2010 / Final year Students 2009-10

Answer rate:

  • Geneva: 90/115 (78%) (Survey administered to 5th year students)
  • Lausanne: 94/151 (62%)
  • Bern: 98/171 (57%)
  • Zürich: 95/229 (41%)

Choice of specialty – Main specialty

The figures below are based on the total number of students who indicated having made a specialty choice:

  • Geneva: 47/81* (48%)
  • Lausanne: 64/94 (70%)
  • Bern: 55/98 (56%)
  • Zürich: 66/95 (70%)

*GE: 9 missing answers

FinCHGrdeSpec10_Eng
  • 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: 90/115 (78%)
  • Lausanne: 94/151 (62%)
  • Bern: 98/171 (57%)
  • Zürich: 95/229 (42%)
FinCHPratProf10_Eng
  • A = Clinical practices
  • B = Academic career
  • C = Non-academic career
  • D = Undecided
  • E = Other

Choice of professional practice

Geneva: N=77 / Lausanne: N=80 / Bern: N=79 / Zürich: N=69

(Undecided not included: GE N=13, LA N=14, BE N=19, ZU N=26)

A – Clinical practice

The figures below are based on the total number of students indicating a Clinical Practice career:

  • Geneva: 43/77 (56%)
  • Lausanne: 59/80 (74%)
  • Bern: 63/79 (80%)
  • Zürich: 51/69 (74%)
FinCHPratClin10_Eng
  • 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

B – Academic vs non-academic career

The figures below are based on the total number of students indicating an Academic or Non-academic career:

  • Geneva: 28/77 (36%)
  • Lausanne: 14/80 (18%)
  • Bern: 13/79 (16%)
  • Zürich: 16/69 (23%)
FinCHCarAcad10_Eng
  • 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

Choice of professional practice: Type of specialization

The figures below are based on the questionnaire total number of answers:

  • Geneva: 90/115 (78%)
  • Lausanne: 94/151 (62%)
  • Bern: 98/171 (57%)
  • Zürich: 95/229 (42%)
FinCHChSpec10_Eng
  • 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 ...)