Job Satisfaction of the Bulgarian Primary Care Physicians

Abstract

The organizational reform of the health care system in Bulgaria was started in 2000. As a result, the primary health care in the country was organized in a new way -based on individual and group practices of general medicine. The new conditions and organization of work, the new requirements and the new organization of training have become a challenge for general practitioners working in these practices. The work in difficult conditions can become a factor that seriously reduces job satisfaction as well as motivation for work. In Bulgaria for recent years there is an unfavorable tendency to reduce the number of GPs working in the country, which is probably related to their satisfaction with the working conditions (Figure 1). The job satisfaction of the primary care physician is an important factor for quality of health, because the primary care level is responsible for providing medical care to a greater proportion of the population than any other care level. Abstract