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
- 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%)
- 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%)
- 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%)
- 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%)
- 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 ...)