NDLI: Workshop with medical students on physicians’ earning opportunities, workload and job satisfaction increases the attractiveness of working self-employed and working in general practice

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Author	Heine, Alexander Geier, Anne-Kathrin Lippmann, Stefan Bleckwenn, Markus Frese, Thomas Deutsch, Tobias
Abstract	Background Among the various factors identified as relevant for primary care career choice, financial considerations have been consistently shown to have an impact. In Germany, reliable and easily understandable information on physicians’ earning opportunities in self-employed settings is difficult to obtain for medical students, leading to substantial misperceptions that may negatively affect respective career considerations. This study investigated medical students’ evaluation of a 45-min evidence-based workshop on earning opportunities, workload and job satisfaction in different specialties and settings to examine its effect on the perceived attractiveness of working self-employed and working in general practice. Methods The workshop was implemented as part of a mandatory general practice clerkship in the fourth study year (of six). Post-hoc evaluations of all participants between October 2017 and September 2018 (one cohort) were analysed cross-sectionally including descriptive statistics, subgroup comparisons and qualitative analysis of free-text answers regarding students’ main insights. Results Response rate was 98.1% (307/313). Participants were on average 25.0 years old, and 68.3% were women. Based on a ten-point scale ranging from 1 = ’no influence’ to 10 = ’very big influence’, 91.9% confirmed at least some (> = 2) and 57.3% a rather high (> = 5) influence of earning expectations on their career choice process. Regarding the workshop, 86.1% were overall satisfied, and 89.5% indicated they had gained new insights, primarily regarding earning opportunities in different specialties and work settings, and frequently regarding job satisfaction, workload and the structure of revenues and expenditures in a doctor’s office (according to qualitative analysis). In the opinion of 89.8% of students, the provided learning content should be part of the undergraduate curriculum. More than half of participants reported an increase regarding the attractiveness of working self-employed and working as a general practitioner, most frequently regarding earning opportunities, but also in general and in respect to job satisfaction, cost–benefit ratio and workload. This increase was significantly higher among students favouring or at least considering a general practice career. Conclusions The workshop and its content were appreciated by the students and showed clear potential to usefully complement undergraduate curricula aiming at increasing or reinforcing students’ interest in working self-employed and working in general practice.
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ISSN	14726920
DOI	10.1186/s12909-022-03191-3
Journal	BMC Medical Education
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	22
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2022-03-01
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Subject Keyword	Medical Education Theory of Medicine Bioethics Career choice Medical students Undergraduate medical education Earning opportunities Workload Job satisfaction Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
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Subject	Education Medicine
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