IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i12p4310-d372268.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Career Prospects of Young Dentists in Switzerland

Author

Listed:
  • Guglielmo Campus

    (Department of Restorative, Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
    Department of Surgery, Microsurgery and Medicine Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Sassari, I-07100 Sassari, Italy)

  • Philippe Rusca

    (Department of Restorative, Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
    Swiss Dental Association (SSO), 3011 Bern, Switzerland)

  • Christine Amrhein

    (Swiss Dental Association (SSO), 3011 Bern, Switzerland)

  • Andreas Meier

    (Swiss Dental Association (SSO), 3011 Bern, Switzerland)

  • Oliver Zeyer

    (Swiss Dental Association (SSO), 3011 Bern, Switzerland)

  • Thomas Gerhard Wolf

    (Department of Restorative, Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
    Department of Periodontology and Operative Dentistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany)

Abstract

The observational cross-sectional study was aimed to obtain information on the promotion and development of young professionals in Switzerland. An online survey with 20 questions was sent out. Data was collected on participants’ demographic data, including age, gender, level of qualification, place of work, information on employment, future perspectives, and career prospects. The survey was sent out to 1920 practitioners, of which 440 (22.9%) responded (37.1% males and 62.9% females). Of them, 76.6% were members of the Swiss Dental Association (SSO) 15.9% students, and 7.5% non-SSO members. Most participants had parents with a dental education (80.9%), and 19.8% did not. Young dentists in Switzerland most often saw their career prospects as neutral (39.8%) or rather positive (39.3%). Whereas significantly fewer dentists had a negative view of their professional future (16.8%), including more women than men, the fewest dentists of both sexes (4.1%) saw their career prospects as positive by far. The majority of young dentists were satisfied with their career prospects. Within the limitations of the current study, the reasons for this need further investigation. Despite good career prospects, there is a desire among young colleagues for cantonal practice assistance and mentoring programs, as well as support in finding a job and in taking the plunge into self-employment.

Suggested Citation

  • Guglielmo Campus & Philippe Rusca & Christine Amrhein & Andreas Meier & Oliver Zeyer & Thomas Gerhard Wolf, 2020. "Career Prospects of Young Dentists in Switzerland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-8, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:12:p:4310-:d:372268
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/12/4310/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/12/4310/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Thomas Gerhard Wolf & Ralf Friedrich Wagner & Oliver Zeyer & Duygu Ilhan & Tin Crnić & Ernst-Jürgen Otterbach & Guglielmo Campus, 2020. "Expectations Regarding Dental Practice: A Cross-Sectional Survey of European Dental Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-9, October.
    2. Thomas Gerhard Wolf & Ernst-Jürgen Otterbach & Oliver Zeyer & Ralf Friedrich Wagner & Tin Crnić & Duygu Ilhan & Guglielmo Campus, 2021. "Influence of Oral Health Care Systems on Future Career Environment of Dental Students in Europe," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(16), pages 1-10, August.
    3. Katsuo Oshima & Tomoko Kodama & Yusuke Ida & Hiroko Miura, 2021. "Gender Differences in Work Status during Early Career of Dentists: An Analysis of National Survey Cohort Data of 10 Years in Japan," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-11, February.
    4. Thomas Gerhard Wolf & Oliver Zeyer & Guglielmo Campus, 2020. "COVID-19 in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Dentists’ Awareness, Protective Measures and Economic Effects," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(23), pages 1-12, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:12:p:4310-:d:372268. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.