Table 1.

The top ten strategies selected to improve recruitment of general practitioners and family physicians in Singapore

Rank	GPs and FPs recruitment strategy	Category	Priority score
1	Emphasizing GP/FPs’ lifestyle factorsa	Promoting general practice	84.9
2	Enhancing status and contribution of primary care practitioners	Promoting general practice	84.7
3	Having sub-specialization and profiling of new skills	Improving breadth of training	82
4	Ensuring rotations are of high quality, with dedicated teaching faculty	Improving breadth of training	81.3
5	Emphasizing the holistic, community-oriented and patient-focused approach to family medicine	Promoting general practice	81.1
6	Having GP/FP role models	Promoting general practice	79.4
7	Modifying medical school curricula in primary care via exposure to varied patient settings	Improving breadth of training	78.8
8	Modifying medical school curricula in primary care via increased exposure to family medicine practice	Improving breadth of training	77.9
9	Enabling workplace experience and interaction with members of the profession	Improving breadth of training	77.2
10	Increasing and ensuring funding for fellowship training in primary care	Targeted financial support	75

^aEmphasizing benefits of a GP/FP lifestyle such as flexibility, work-life balance or compatibility with family life