Primary care at Swiss universities - current state and perspective

Tandjung, Ryan; Ritter, Catherine; Haller, Dagmar M; Tschudi, Peter; Schaufelberger, Mireille; Bischoff, Thomas; Herzig, Lilli; Rosemann, Thomas; Sommer, Johanna (2014). Primary care at Swiss universities - current state and perspective. BMC research notes, 7(1), p. 308. Biomed Central 10.1186/1756-0500-7-308

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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.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of General Practice and Primary Care (BIHAM)

UniBE Contributor:

Schaufelberger, Mireille

Subjects:

600 Technology > 630 Agriculture
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1756-0500

Publisher:

Biomed Central

Language:

English

Submitter:

Thierry Gnahoré

Date Deposited:

01 Sep 2014 15:40

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1186/1756-0500-7-308

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.54071

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/54071

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