It’s not all about the money – exploring the motivations of Danish GPs

<p>In this episode, we talk to Line Pedersen and Anne Sophie Oxholm from the Research Unit for General Practice at the University of Southern Denmark.</p><p><em>Title of paper: Mapping general practitioners’ motivation: It is not all about the money. A nation-wide cross-sectional survey study from Denmark</em></p><p><strong>Available at: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0563</strong></a></p><p>Understanding physicians’ motivation may be essential for designing policies and organisational structures that ensure the wellbeing and retention of GPs, and high-quality care. However, physicians’ motivation remains an understudied area. We find heterogeneity in GPs’ work motivation and identify five GP segments. The largest segment (53.2%) is characterised by being motivated ‘less by the money’.</p>