[Modes of consultant employment in Israel].

Background: One of the features of modern clinical practice is the shift of secondary care from hospitals to the community clinics. This phenomenon and the competition among health plans, has accelerated the development of secondary medicine at the community level, and increased the activity of outpatient clinics in acute-care hospitals. Consequently, many consultants are working in more than one setting within the framework of different modes of employment.

[The relationship between job overload, burnout and job satisfaction, and the number of jobs of Israeli consultants].

Background: The locus of secondary medical care provision is changing. Services that once were provided solely in hospitals are now available in the community. This and the increased competition among health plans since implementation of the National Health Insurance Law have spurred the development of community-based consultant/specialty medicine in Israel.