Population (2017): 8.42 M
Income per Capita (2018): 76,667.44 US
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare (2015): 12.06%
training
Year family medicine established: unknown
Type of Training: Residency
Length of Training: 6 years of medical school (Bachelor Humanmedizin, 2018) is required that is divided into a bachelor’s and master’s degree. Following this there is 5 years of post-graduate training (Buddeberg-Fischer et al., 2007)
Number of institutions that offer family medicine: The 5 universities that teach family medicine are Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich (Brekke et al., 2013)
Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: unknown
practice
Number of family doctors in country (2016): 9,601 family physicians (Eurostat, 2016)
Physician to population ratio (2006): 78 family physicians per 100,000 people (Masseria et al., 2009).
DALY: 10,745 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: 85.6 years
Males 2017: 81.7 years
Mortality rate 2017:
2018 Males: 58 per 1,000 male adults.
2018 Females: 36 per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 72%
College of Family Physicians (Y or N):
Yes: Swiss Society of General Practice.
Healthcare System
The health care system is universal but administered by individual cantons. Everyone must have basic health and accident insurance (Expatica, 2017)
The Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SGAIM) was founded in 2015. This was created when the Swiss Society of General Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine merged (SGAIM SSMIG SSGIM, n.d.)
training
It is unknown what year family medicine was established in Switzerland, but the necessary training now includes 6 years of medical school (Bachelor Humanmedizin, 2018) is required that is divided into a bachelor’s and master’s degree. Following this there is 5 years of post-graduate training (Buddeberg-Fischer et al., 2007 The residency program is provided by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and some private practitioners. They are all accredited by the FMH (Kringos et al., n.d.) Five universities in Switzerland offer family medicine training: Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich (Brekke et al., 2013)
practice
Family physicians provide a long range of services that include diagnosis and follow-up for chronic conditions, prevention and health promotion, and vaccinations. Depending on the medical environment, they are maybe less used and less inclined to provide services for gynecological problems or minor surgery.
Other primary care deliverers include pediatricians, gynecologists and internal medicine physicians.
Switzerland has no gatekeeping system (Masseria et al., 2009)
Reference
“Bachelor Humanmedizin.” 2018. Accessed December 2, 2018. http://www.medizin.unibe.ch/studium/studienprogramme/bachelor_humanmedizin/index_ger.html.
Brekke, Mette, Francesco Carelli, Natalia Zarbailov, Givi Javashvili, Stefan Wilm, Markku Timonen, and Howard Tandeter. 2013. “Undergraduate Medical Education in General Practice/Family Medicine throughout Europe-a Descriptive Study.” http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/157.
Buddeberg-Fischer, Barbara, Martina Stamm, and Franz Marty. 2007. “Family Medicine in Switzerland: Training Experiences in Medical School and Residency.” Family Medicine 39 (9): 651–55. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17932799.
“Healthcare in Switzerland” Expatica, 2017. Accessed on December 1, 2018. https://www.expatica.com/ch/healthcare/Getting-healthcare-in-Switzerland_103130.html.
Kringos, Dionne S, Wienke G W Boerma, Allen Hutchinson, Richard D Saltman, and Richard B Saltman. n.d. “Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Edited Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Observatory Studies Series 38.” Accessed December 2, 2018. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/271170/BuildingPrimaryCareChangingEurope.pdf.
Masseria, Cristina, Rachel Irwin, Sarah Thomson, Marin Gemmill, and Elias Mossialos. 2009. “Primary Care in Europe.” The London School of Economics and Political Science, no. December: 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0b013e31824b45f4.
“Physicians, by Speciality.” 2016. Eurostat. Accessed on December 1, 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisticsexplained/index.php?title=File:Physicians,_by_speciality,_2016_HLTH18.png.
“SGAIM SSMIG SSGIM.” n.d. Accessed December 2, 2018. https://www.sgaim.ch/de/home.html.
