Working as a doctor is one of the most prestigious professions in Switzerland, but the reality seems quite different: one-third of medical students say they are ready to give up after their first internship in a hospital due to the long hours and heavy administrative workload expected in the years ahead.
According to a study by the Swiss Association of Medical Students, 34% of students want to change career path following their end-of-studies internship in a Swiss hospital. This generally takes place in their sixth year of studies and consists of 6-12 months in a hospital helping assistant doctors. …
Damn… you’re 6 years in and you realize: “I’ve made a grave mistake”
How is Switzerland going to maintain its high standard of medical care with this outlook? Almost one third of current doctors are going to retire in the next five years and one third of medical students may change career before even entering the job. And don’t tell me globuli, please, no!!
Please… a small army of my colleagues is treaty to emigrate to Switzerland from Germany.
Yeah, that’s exactly our current plan. Brain drain our neighbors. What prevents them from migrating now?
Why will no one just answer the obvious question? Do the grueling hours make people into better doctors than say a more reasonable pace? If the answer is ‘no’, then stop building things that way!
I used to date a mid-career physician and she and all her peers live like the walking dead, still, years after the training phase has finally ended. They are incredibly dedicated people whom I respect, but I don’t think they fully realize the vast consequences to their health and interpersonal lives.
As a surgeon myself, the answer is simple… why hire more people if the ones working for three are dumb enough to continue. Our coming generation will change a lot about that. It’s going to be really interesting soon
