The Effort and Reward of Teaching Medical Psychology in Germany: an Online Survey.

The increasing significance of university teaching also leads to higher demands for academic teachers. Against this background this study inquires how teachers in the field of medical pychology experience and evaluate their various activities and how their efforts on the one hand and gratifications on the other hand relate to each other (as conceptualized by the effort-reward-imbalance, ERI). A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in 2012 among the academic staff of departments of medical psychology in Germany.