What is it about?
Young and future GPs in Switzerland want to work part-time in small, GP-owned group practices. Practices should offer them employment opportunities with a path to (co-)ownership.
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Why is it important?
Switzerland is short about 2000 GPs. As GPs retire over the next ten years, the shortage will increase to 4000, and the country will need young doctors to fill their positions. One of the best ways to attract young GPs to Swiss practices is to offer them the option of part-time work. Retiring GPs and recruiters for practices should think about converting or merging private practices, and should offer opportunities for young physicians to transition from employee to (co-)owner.
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Stakeholders who claim that young doctors prefer employment to owning a practice are telling only part of the truth. Since the projected career span of a GP is around 30 years, young GPs intend to spend a relatively short time as employees and most of their career as owners or co-owners. This initial desire for employment must be acknowledged and met, but it should also be understood as a career stage, rather than a permanent condition.
Professor Sven Streit
Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern
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This page is a summary of: From practice employee to (co-)owner: young GPs predict their future careers: a cross-sectional survey, BMC Family Practice, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-017-0591-7.
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