Table 1 The top ten strategies selected to improve recruitment of general practitioners and family physicians in Singapore
Rank | GPs and FPs recruitment strategy | Category | Priority score |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Emphasizing GP/FPs’ lifestyle factorsa | Promoting general practice | 84.9 |
2 | Enhancing status and contribution of primary care practitioners | Promoting general practice | 84.7 |
3 | Having sub-specialization and profiling of new skills | Improving breadth of training | 82 |
4 | Ensuring rotations are of high quality, with dedicated teaching faculty | Improving breadth of training | 81.3 |
5 | Emphasizing the holistic, community-oriented and patient-focused approach to family medicine | Promoting general practice | 81.1 |
6 | Having GP/FP role models | Promoting general practice | 79.4 |
7 | Modifying medical school curricula in primary care via exposure to varied patient settings | Improving breadth of training | 78.8 |
8 | Modifying medical school curricula in primary care via increased exposure to family medicine practice | Improving breadth of training | 77.9 |
9 | Enabling workplace experience and interaction with members of the profession | Improving breadth of training | 77.2 |
10 | Increasing and ensuring funding for fellowship training in primary care | Targeted financial support | 75 |