Primary care at Swiss universities - current state and perspective

BMC Research Notes

Johanna Sommer⁴  Thomas Rosemann⁵  Lilli Herzig²  Thomas Bischoff²  Mireille Schaufelberger³  Peter Tschudi¹  Dagmar M Haller⁴  Catherine Ritter⁴  Ryan Tandjung⁵ 

[1] Institute of General Practice, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland;Institute of General Practice, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Bernese Institute of General Practice, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;Primary Care Unit, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland;Institute for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

关键词: Medical education;    Academic career;    Teaching;    Research output;    Swiss universities;    Primary care;   

Others  :  1132724
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-7-308

 received in 2013-11-08, accepted in 2014-05-16,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

There is increasing evidence that a strong primary care is a cornerstone of an efficient health care system. But Switzerland is facing a shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs). This pushed the Federal Council of Switzerland to introduce a multifaceted political programme to strengthen the position of primary care, including its academic role. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the situation of academic primary care at the five Swiss universities by the end of year 2012.

Results

Although primary care teaching activities have a long tradition at the five Swiss universities with activities starting in the beginning of the 1980ies; the academic institutes of primary care were only established in recent years (2005 – 2009). Only one of them has an established chair. Human and financial resources vary substantially. At all universities a broad variety of courses and lectures are offered, including teaching in private primary care practices with 1331 PCPs involved. Regarding research, differences among the institutes are tremendous, mainly caused by entirely different human resources and skills.

Conclusion

So far, the activities of the existing institutes at the Swiss Universities are mainly focused on teaching. However, for a complete academic institutionalization as well as an increased acceptance and attractiveness, more research activities are needed. In addition to an adequate basic funding of research positions, competitive research grants have to be created to establish a specialty-specific research culture.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Tandjung et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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