Alexander Avian, Stephanie Poggenburg, Dagmar Schaffler-Schaden, Kathryn Hoffmann, Linda Sanftenberg, Svetla Loukanova, Herbert Bachler, Sabine Gehrke-Beck, Marija Petek Ster, Annette Becker, Markus Herrmann, Thomas Frese, Ferdinand Gerlach, Erika Zelko, Maria Flamm, Marco Roos, Michael Freitag, Julia Schirgi, Anita Rieder, Andrea Siebenhofer
BACKGROUND: A shortage of general practitioners (GPs) is common to many European countries. To counteract this, it is essential to understand the factors that encourage or discourage medical students from choosing to become a GP. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate medical students' attitudes towards general practice and to identify factors that discourage them from considering a career as a GP. METHODS: In this multinational cross-sectional online survey, 29 284 students from nine German, four Austrian and two Slovenian universities were invited to answer a questionnaire consisting of 146 closed and 13 open-ended items...
November 30, 2020: Family Practice