• K Bevers, S Nauta, and P M Stuyt.
• Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud, afd. Algemeen Interne Geneeskunde, Postbus 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen.
• Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2004 Feb 14;148(7):336-9.

AbstractDue to various factors such as social changes, an increasing number of couples with two incomes, and a growing proportion of female doctors, there has been a growing demand for part-time work in recent years. This is also true for resident physicians. Objections such as a discontinuity in care and the decline in the quality of education frequently prevent resident physicians from working part-time. Over the past two years, the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has experimented with job-sharing on clinical wards for resident physicians in internal medicine. This approach works well in practice, as long as a number of conditions, including the proper transfer of medical information and good communication, are satisfied. Job-sharing is one means of satisfying the growing demand for part-time work among resident physicians and specialists.

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