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Table 3 Three most important factors in choice of a GP practice

From: From practice employee to (co-)owner: young GPs predict their future careers: a cross-sectional survey

Within top three answers

Category

Mentioned most frequently

72%

Working climate

Pleasant colleagues, working well together, good team work

52%

Location

Near home, rural

34%

Workload

Part-time, flexible or well-regulated working hours

22%

Infrastructure

Rooms, equipment, diagnostics, IT

14%

Group practice

Group or common practice

14%

Self-employmenta

Self-employed, independent

11%

Spectrum of services

Wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, complementary medicine

  1. aMore older participants (20%) chose self-employment than younger participants (7%) (p = 0.005)