title: [Shortage of physicians in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine - Causes, consequences and solutions].
abstract: 74% of all hospitals had vacant positions in 2011, also departments of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. More than 50% of these departments work with locums. There are couple of reasons for the shortage of physicians. The consequences in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine can result in qualitative and financial loss. To solve the shortage of physicians one has to solve the reasons. Main reasons are increasing feminization of medical profession and part-time-work, work-life-balance and a poor specialised education.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Würzburg. papenfuss_t@klinik.uniwuerzburg.de
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Papenfuß
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roch
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D003284:Contract Services; D003422:Critical Care; D003710:Demography; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D010559:Personnel Management; D010820:Physicians; D012737:Sex Factors; D000078329:Workforce