title: General practitioner teachers' job satisfaction and their medical students' wish to join the field - a correlational study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There will be increasing competition for young physicians worldwide as more and more physicians retire. While enthusiasm towards GP work is important for GP teachers as role models, satisfaction within the profession has declined. This study aims to determine if medical students' desire to become GPs is related to the job satisfaction of their teaching GPs and explore the factors tied to this job satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this cross-sectional, correlational study, teaching GPs of the University of Bern and the fourth year medical students completing internships with them filled in separate questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Whether or not the GP teacher is perceived by a student to be satisfied with her/his job is correlated to that student's satisfaction with the internship, which in turn, is correlated with student's wish to be a GP after the internship. Results show which factors are most related to GP job satisfaction and the effect of working hours and their composition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical students' perception of their GP teachers' job satisfaction positively affect their wish to become GPs, and their satisfaction with their internships adds to this. Enhancing the positive aspects of GP work, such as recognition, and improving negative ones, such as administrative duties, are necessary to attract medical students into the GP field.
authors.affiliation: Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin BIHAM, Gesellschaftsstrasse 49, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. damian.meli@biham.unibe.ch.
authors.forename: Damian Notker
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Meli
authors.forename: Angie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frey
authors.forename: Mireille
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schaufelberger
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D058006:General Practice / Q000193:education*; D058005:General Practitioners / Q000523:psychology*; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires