ArticleGesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany))2024
[How to Motivate Medical Students to Practice in Rural Areas].
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- Rural admission quota in Germany: students' attitudes, challenges and the need for support programmes.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- The positive impact of students in general practice clerkships in rural Germany: diverging views of students, general practitioners, and practice assistants in a prospective survey.BMC medical education · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe excellent project "LandArztMacher" is an attempt to work against the predicted shortage of rural doctors in Germany with diverse approaches.
method"LandArztMacher" is a clinical traineeship with four weeks of practical training in general practices and clinics in the Bavarian countryside, accompanied by joint professional teaching. Participants were asked before and after the internship about the topics "importance of an internship in rural areas"; "attractiveness of rural areas" (scale: 0/no agreement to 10/full agreement). Ideas about the tasks of a general practitioner were assessed (scale: 0/no idea at all to 100/exact idea). The present study is a repeated cross-sectional study. The median is reported as the location measure and the interquartile range as the dispersion measure.
resultsParticipants (n=363, 74% female, n=267, age: range 19-46 years, mean: 23.2 years, SD: 2.41 years) from the clinical section of the medical studies considered an internship in the rural area before and after the internship very important (median: 8 and 9, respectively) and could well imagine working in the countryside (median: 7 and 8, respectively). Their attitude towards the cultural offerings or the infrastructure did not change (median: 6 in each case). After the internship, the students had a more precise idea of what a general practitioner tasks are (median: 65 and 90, respectively). SUMMARY: A well-structured four-week rural internship can enhance the appeal of future rural employment through individual supervision and collaborative training.
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