Medical students' perspectives on earning opportunities of self-employed physicians - realistic and relevant for the process of career choice?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies report a substantial impact of financial considerations on the process of specialty choice and the willingness to establish one's own practice. In Germany, reliable information on self-employed physicians' earning opportunities is basically available, but not easily accessible and understandable for medical students. Misperceptions might contribute to recruitment problems in some fields, particularly in general practice. In order to identify a possible need for action, we investigated current German medical students' level of information regarding future earnings, and whether net earnings of general practitioners and other physicians working self-employed are estimated realistically. Additionally, we explored students' self-assessments regarding the exten

SUBMITTER: Deutsch T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011452 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature