Geneva Final Year Students 2007-008
Choice of specialty and professional practice: Survey 2008
(Survey administered to 5th year students)
Answer rate: 77% (66/86)
Specialty choice: Main specialties
The figure below is based on the total number of students who indicated having made a specialty choice, N=39/66 (59%)
Choice of professional practice
The figure below is based on the questionnaire total number of answers of N=66/86 (77%)
Note: A few students have checked more than one choice.
Choice of professional practice (N=45)
(Undecided not included N=21)
A - Academic vs non-academic career
The figure below is based on the total number of students indicating an Academic or Non-academic career,N=21/45 (47%)
B - Clinical practices
The figure below is based on the total number of students indicating a Clinical Practice career, N=35/45 (78%).
Choice of professional practice: Type of practices
- 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 ...)