Internists‘ career choice towards primary care: a cross-sectional survey

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Baseline characteristics

	PCPs		Hospital internists		Subspecialists		Others
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Total	573	100	219	100	611	100	59	100
Female	311	54.3	109	49.8	203	33.2	32	54.2
Education and residency
Swiss medical diploma	479	83.6	185	84.5	490	80.2	50	84.7
PCP vocational training	161	28.1	34	15.5	79	12.9	9	15.3
residency in an academic hospital	350	61.1	166	75.8	449	73.5	44	74.6
Current work situation
Part time	372	64.9	85	38.8	196	32.1	26	44.1
Leading position	174	30.4	156	71.2	341	55.8	26	44.1
Employed	156	27.2	210	95.9	448	73.3	47	79.7
Setting
Practice	527	92.0	6	2.7	189	30.9	16	27.1
Hospital	19	3.3	197	90.0	351	57.4	16	27.1
Outpatient clinic	13	2.3	10	4.6	52	8.5	4	6.8
Nursing home	4	0.7	2	0.9	4	0.7	1	1.7
Other^a	4	0.7	2	0.9	5	0.7	21	35.6
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
Age	46	42–51	45	42–49	44	41–47	45	43–49
Education and residency
Age at end of med. school	27	26–28	26	26–28	26	26–27	27	26–28
Months of outpatient work	12	9–24	14	10–24	12	9–18	12	6–17.25
Current work situation
Working half-days a week	9	6–10	10	7–11	10	8–11	10	6.75–10

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