Hospital Employer Attractiveness Considering the Increasing Shortage of Skilled Medical Professionals—A German Review

Abstract

The main goal of this review is to give an overview of scientific publications concerning the employer attractiveness of German hospitals from the perspective of medical doctors in order to identify future research possibilities. After a summary of central problems concerning the German health sector and its current challenges, the study design behind the systematic content analysis as well as its criteria are presented. Selected results describe characteristics of expert literature for employer attractiveness in general, the attractiveness of German hospitals as employers ("hospit-al employer attractiveness" for short) as well as employer attractiveness from a medical doctor's point of view. For each of these areas, focal points of research and main results are summarized and research gaps are pointed out.