| SWITZERLAND | General Medicine | Internal Medicine | Surgery | Other Specializations | |
| 72 months | | completing the surgical procedures catalogue (24 months) | |||
| 60 months | further training as a family doctor (24 months) | further training as a hospital internist (24 months) | heterogeneous structure (60 to 72 months) | ||
| 48 months | surgery of the “most common” (24 months) | ||||
| 36 months | common basis training in internal medicine (36 months) | ||||
| 24 months | common basic training (24 months) | ||||