Job-sharing in nuclear medicine: an 8-year experience (1998-2006)

Claudine Als; Peter Brautigam

Vol 9, No 1 (2006)

Occasional surveys

Submitted: 2012-01-23

Published online: 2006-01-25

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Job-sharing in nuclear medicine: an 8-year experience (1998-2006)

Claudine Als, Peter Brautigam

Nucl. Med. Rev 2006;9(1):82-83.

Vol 9, No 1 (2006)

Occasional surveys

Submitted: 2012-01-23

Published online: 2006-01-25

Abstract

Job-sharing is generally defined as a situation in which a single professional position is held in common by two separate individuals, who alternatively, on a timely basis, deal with the workload and the responsibilities. The aim of the present paper is to discuss prerequisites and characteristics of job-sharing by medical doctors and implications in a department of nuclear medicine. Job-sharing facilitates the combination of family life with professional occupation and prevents burnout. The time schedule applied by job-sharers is relevant: will both partners work for half-days, half-weeks, or rather alternatively during one to two consecutive weeks? This crucial choice, depending on personal as well as on professional circumstances, certainly influences the workflow of the department.