Table 2 Categories and factors influencing participants’ perceptions of career development
From: General practitioner trainees’ career perspectives after COVID-19: a qualitative study in China
Categories | Factors |
|---|---|
1. Changes of GPs’ work content in COVID-19 | Different responsibility of GPs in COVID-19 |
New roles of GPs in COVID-19 | |
Increasing use of telemedicine | |
2. Challenges of being a GP | Exhaustion due to medical workloads |
Low income | |
Lack of resources in primary medical institutions | |
Distrust of GPs in society | |
3. Psychological changes of the career | Feeling unsafe on the job |
Inspiration by role models | |
Motivation by medical colleagues | |
4. How to provide better primary care | Strengthening public health education |
Improving medical skills | |
Self-protection in preventing infectious diseases | |
Construction of family doctor team and better co-operation |