Swiss Final Year Students
Choice of specialty and professional pratice - Survey 2012 / Final year Students 2012-12
Answer rate:
- Geneva 54/125 (43%)
- Lausanne 81/154 (53%)
- Bern 72/141 (51%)
- Zürich 130/248 (52%)
Choice of specialty – Main specialty
The figures below are based on the total number of students who indicated having made a specialty choice:
- Geneva: N=34/52 (65%), 2 missing answers
- Lausanne: N=59/80 (74%), 1 missing answer
- Bern: N=41/72 (57%)
- Zürich: N=80/130(62%)
- A = General Internal Medicine
- B = Surgery
- C = Pediatrics
- D = Ob/Gynecology
- E = Psychiatry
Choice of professional practice
The figures below are based on the questionnaire total number of answers:
- Geneva 49/125 (39%), 5 missing answers
- Lausanne 79/154 (51%), 2 missing answers
- Bern 72/141(51%)
- Zürich 130/248 (52%)
- A = Clinical practice
- B = Academic career
- C = Non-academic career
- D = Undecided
- E = Other
Choice of professional practice
Geneva: N=48 / Lausanne: N=70 / Bern: N=55 / Zürich: N=109
(undecided not included: GE N=6, LA N=11, BE N=17, ZU N=21)
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: 13/43 (30%), 5 missing answers
- Lausanne: 18/68 (26%), 2 missing answers
- Bern: 14/55 (25%)
- Zürich: 17/109 (16%)
- 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
The figures below are based on the total number of students indicating a Clinical Practice career:
- Geneva: 25/43 (58%)
- Lausanne: 46/68 (68%)
- Bern: 41/55 (75%)
- Zürich: 87/109 (80%)
- 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