Doctors glut
The term “ medical glut” is a metaphorical word creation from the 1980s, when warnings were issued in Germany against an increasing number of licensed doctors against an inadequate number of vacancies in the medical field. The difficult labor market situation for medical professionals in Germany existed in the period from 1982 to 2002.
Germany
Trained physicians in Germany were threatened with unemployment from around 1982 when the number of applicants exceeded the number of vacancies for the first time. One consequence was, among other things, the introduction of the 18-month phase of the doctor's internship in 1988, which was decided in 1983 and which made a doctor financially worse off than other qualified hospital staff with a few years of experience.
In 1997, unemployment in Germany peaked. In January 1997, the Federal Labor Office recorded 10,594 doctors registered as unemployed.
In the period from 1995 to 2006, the number of resident doctors in Germany rose from 117,578 to 134,798 and that of employed hospital doctors from 132,736 to 146,511. In relative terms, Germany, with around 12 graduates per 100,000 population, trains twice as many doctors as in the USA, while in absolute terms around 10,000 trained doctors per year is the second highest number after the USA. Unemployment among medical professionals fell significantly at the same time. There has been talk of a shortage of doctors since around 2002 . The decreasing attractiveness of working conditions led to the doctors' strike in Germany in 2006 .
Switzerland
A possible surge of doctors in Switzerland has been discussed since 2005, as the labor markets in Switzerland and the European Union are mutually opening up . At the same time, however, there is also talk of a shortage of doctors . As early as October 2007, the Swiss Science Council warned of an impending shortage of doctors, as Switzerland only offered just under 1,000 study places. The shortage mainly affects psychiatrists and general practitioners in core cities and in peripheral communities.
The admission ban for doctors from abroad, in place since 2001, was extended by three years in 2016.
In 2016, the media reported a shortage of doctors in Switzerland. This is mainly due to the fact that trained doctors changed their jobs and worked in related industries, especially the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology. According to a study by the Vatter office and the GFS research institute, the reasons given by the doctors surveyed are the working conditions with over 50 hours a week and shift work that is difficult to reconcile with the family .
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- ↑ Karl Lauterbach : The doctors earn well enough. In: taz , December 8, 2006.
- ↑ German Medical Association : Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), 2002.
- ^ Peter Ilg: Diagnosis of full employment. In: Monster.de , October 10, 2003.
- ↑ Fritz Stahel: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Is Switzerland threatened with a surge of doctors? In: E-Magazine Credit Suisse , May 2, 2005
- ↑ SwissInfo of October 29, 2007
- ^ The time of October 23, 2012
- ↑ NZZ of November 27, 2011
- ↑ Foreign doctors in Switzerland - still high demand and admission freeze for those willing to settle. MedSuccess, June 20, 2016, accessed October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Raphaela Birrer: To whom we lose the doctors. In: Basler Zeitung. August 25, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .