Prospective doctor Erik Bryhn in Kalmar: "More paid as a hired doctor"

Erik Bryhn is one of the country's future doctors.

He studies in Linköping but is doing his tenth semester at Länssjukhuset in Kalmar.

Nor has he set his sights on a future as a general practitioner, like many other future doctors.

It is the surgery that attracts him.

- I think many people go in with the idea that it is primary care that is their thing, but over time they get burned out.

Hear Erik Bryhn tell more in the clip above about why he thinks many people opt out of working as a general practitioner.

Only five percent want to become general practitioners

Despite the great need for doctors in general medicine in primary care, only five percent of Sweden's medical students, who are now in the last two semesters of the medical program, are sure that they want to choose that path.

This is shown by SVT's survey of more than 700 medical students.

Erik Bryhn tells about a doctor he met at Länssjukhuset in Kalmar who previously worked in primary care, but who he changed after they got tired of it.

There is not enough time

When he thinks about what it is in the primary care job that does not attract, it is about the fact that working hours are not enough for all tasks.

- If you want people to stay long-term in primary care, you simply have to be more doctors in primary care.

I think that many who still work in primary care do so as hired doctors over time.

Because they get paid more as hired doctors, says Erik Bryhn.