title: [Vocational training of future GPs in Swiss hospitals: the view of chief physicians].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We sought to assess the way future general practitioners are promoted by their chief physicians.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semi quantitative questionnaires sent to 54 chief physicians (hospitals in cantons Zurich and Berne).
  
  
  RESULTS
  42 (77.8%) questionnaires were returned. 41 (97.6%) chief physicians asked the assistant physicians about their intended career. 23 (54.8%) discussed with future general practitioners (GPs) specific learning objectives. 32 (76.2%) chief physicians would have appreciated an official catalogue of learning objectives for future GPs. A GP-specific traineeship was lacking in most of the hospitals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The upcoming shortage of future GPs could be inhibited by an appropriate GP curriculum during the vocational training.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Hausarztmedizin, Universität Zürich und Junge Hausärzte Schweiz (JHaS). nina.badertscher@usz.ch
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Badertscher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schöni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zoller
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rosemann
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital; D003479:Curriculum; D058006:General Practice / Q000193:education*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland