Table 2 Interest in general practice as a career choice
|  | Only general practice | General practice or other specialty | Only other specialty | Don’t know | n | p-value |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Currently planned specialty choice | Â | ||||||||||
Students | 17 (3.2%) | 233 (44.2%) | 215 (40.8%) | 62 (11.8%) | 527 | < 0.001ii |  | ||||
Residents | 12 (11.7%) | 51 (49.5%) | 38 (36.9%) | 2 (1.9%) | 103 | Â | |||||
| Â | Yes, surely | Rather yes | Neutral | Rather no | Not at all | n | p-value | Â | |||
Interest in general practice as a specialty for the future professional life | Â | ||||||||||
Students | 75 (14.3%) | 133 (25.3%) | 146 (27.8%) | 122 (23.2%) | 50 (9.5%) | 526 | 0.001ii | Â | |||
Residents | 32 (31.4%) | 25 (24.5%) | 20 (19.6%) | 17 (16.7%) | 8 (7.8%) | 102 | Â | ||||
| Â | Students | Residents | |||||||||
Reasons fornotbeing interested in general practice [free-text answers] | n = 176 § | n = 23 § | |||||||||
1. | Preference of another specialty | 60 (34.1%) | 5 (21.7%) | ||||||||
2. | General practice is boring/monotonous, many bagatelle health problems, geriatric patients, long-term relationships with patients | 43 (24.4%) | 4 (17.4%) | ||||||||
3. | Too broad spectrum, not specialised, preference of specific knowledge in one concrete specialty | 33 (18.8%) | 1 (4.3%) | ||||||||
4. | Gatekeeper-function, referral in case of more complex or interesting conditions | 29 (16.5%) | 2 (8.7%) | ||||||||
5. | Financial responsibility, lower income than a specialist | 22 (12.5%) | 5 (21.7%) | ||||||||
6. | High burden and workload, no time for the single patient, long working hours | 21 (11.9%) | 7 (30.4%) | ||||||||
7. | No teamwork, limited possibility of networking | 20 (11.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||||||||
8. | Too limited possibility of diagnostic services in the GP office, some therapeutic procedures are not possible or not remunerated | 19 (10.8%) | 2 (8.7%) | ||||||||
9. | Preference of the hospital setting as a working place | 19 (10.8%) | 1 (4.3%) | ||||||||
10. | Free-lance activity and health insurance system are dissuasive | 15 (8.5%) | 1 (4.3%) | ||||||||
11. | Bureaucracy, high administrative burden | 11 (6.3%) | 1 (4.3%) | ||||||||
12. | Little appreciation of general practice, no specialist qualification | 10 (5.7%) | 5 (21.7%) | ||||||||
13. | Too few possibilities to participate in research activities | 9 (5.1%) | 1 (4.3%) | ||||||||
14. | Low quality of the general practice training, unstructured, little recognition | 5 (2.8%) | 5 (21.7%) | ||||||||
15. | Low support of GPs by health policy makers, little networking with hospitals | 5 (2.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||||||||
16. | Separation of professional and private life is difficult | 2 (1.1%) | 4 (17.4%) | ||||||||
17. | Much responsibility, psychological burden, stress | 1 (0.6%) | 3 (13.0%) | ||||||||
18. | General practice offers low professional perspectives | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (13.0%) | ||||||||
19. | Too few possibilities of being employed by another GP | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (8.7%) | ||||||||