Quality of life, group work, incentive aid … Some territories are increasing initiatives to bring young doctors to abandoned areas.
by margherita nasi
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Organized by the Platform Home Doctors Aveyron, the “Adrenaline Weekend” is reserved for young doctors and interns, to which the department unrolls the red carpet. “The internship is a crucial moment. This is where you weave links and create its network,” explains Chrystel Teyssedre, head of the platform, figures in support.
Thanks to this program which combines accommodation helps, sports coaching offered and a team dedicated to young doctors, Aveyron manages to keep 9 % of its interns, against 1 % on average in rural areas, underlines Chrystel Teyssedre: “Since its launch, in 2011, 105 young doctors have settled in Aveyron, it’s huge when you know that the department has 250 general practitioners in liberal.”
The fight against medical deserts requires the recruitment of the new generation, the observation is relentless. In France, 30 % of the population lives in a medical desert, and 11 % of young people aged 17 and over have no attending physician.
How then to encourage young practitioners to invest these neglected territories? The unions of young and future doctors – the National Association of Medicine Students in France (ANEMF), the autonomous grouping of young people installed and replacement (reagjir) and i ntersythndal nationale representative of general medicine interns (isnar -Img) – all oppose the proposition of ‘A fourth year of boarding school. The government is considering extending practical learning by one year to send students to general medicine to medical deserts. “One year of more boarding school, these are thousands of doctors who do not come out of the faculties each year. In addition, to offer the population a doctor who changes every six months, without any monitoring of chronic pathologies, this n ‘ is not ensuring access to care, “said Yaël Thomas, president of the Anemf.
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