Exploring Medical Career Choice to Better Inform Swiss Physician Workforce Planning: Protocol for a National Cohort Study

Milena Abbiati   ¹ , PhD ;   Mathieu R Nendaz   ^{1, 2} , MD, MHPE ;   Bernard Cerutti   ¹ , MPH, PhD ;   Monika Brodmann Mäder   ^{3, 4} , MD, MME ;   Giatgen A Spinas   ³ , MD ;   David Vicente Alvarez   ⁵ , MS ;   Douglas Teodoro   ⁵ , PhD ;   Georges L Savoldelli   ^{1, 6} , MD, MEd ;   Nadia M Bajwa   ^{1, 7} , MD, MHPE, PhD

¹ Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

² Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

³ Swiss Institute for Medical Education, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland

⁵ Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

⁶ Division of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

⁷ Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Women, Children, and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland