Heinz A, Jacob R
Fachbereich IV, Soziologie, Universität Trier, 54286, Trier, Deutschland.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2012 Feb;55(2):245-53. doi: 10.1007/s00103-011-1413-z.
This article presents selected results from a nationwide online survey in Germany asking medical students about their occupational perspectives and expectations: what kind of specialization are they inclined to, where do they want to work, and under what conditions? We sent an email to all the students at 34 of 36 faculties of medicine, asking them to partake in the survey. Through 9 July 2010, 12,518 students answered, which is 15.7% of all 79,929 students enrolled in medicine. One central result is that general medicine-compared to the current situation-will have significant problems in recruiting young medical professionals, if the preferences of the students do not change. In addition, we found spatial disparities: students consider Berlin and Hamburg, urban areas in Southern Germany and the Ruhr Area as attractive places to work, whereas economically underdeveloped rural areas in both Eastern and Western Germany are highly unattractive. So especially those regions will face the problem of recruiting a sufficient number of general practitioners. One strategy to solve this problem could be to recruit young adults for medical school from these rural locations, because there is also a clear tendency that students study close to their home and later also want to work there.
本文展示了德国一项全国性在线调查的部分结果，该调查询问医学生他们的职业前景和期望：他们倾向于哪种专业，想去哪里工作，以及在何种条件下工作？我们给36所医学院中的34所的所有学生发送了电子邮件，邀请他们参与调查。截至2010年7月9日，有12518名学生回复，占所有79929名医学专业学生的15.7%。一个核心结果是，如果学生的偏好不改变，与当前情况相比，全科医学在招募年轻医学专业人员方面将面临重大问题。此外，我们发现了空间差异：学生们认为柏林、汉堡、德国南部的城市地区和鲁尔区是有吸引力的工作地点，而德国东部和西部经济欠发达的农村地区则非常缺乏吸引力。所以特别是那些地区将面临招募足够数量全科医生的问题。解决这个问题的一个策略可能是从这些农村地区招募年轻人进入医学院，因为也有一种明显的趋势，即学生们在离家近的地方学习，之后也想在那里工作。
