Key for More Rural Physicians: Rural Medical Tracks and Students with Rural Background
challenges to safeguard medicalcare in rural areas. In addition to supply control, financial incentives and other control mechanisms, rural-health interventions in undergraduate medical education are exp
Perceptions and Expectations of Future Rural Doctors Regarding their Medical Studies and Subsequent Professional Activity
BackgroundThe rural doctor quota (“Landarztquote”) for medical studies was introduced in Rhineland-Palatinate in winter 2020/2021. The quota intends to ensure and improve FP care in rural regions in the
Basic Medical Education and Vocational Training for Regional Health Care – Family Medicine at the University of Regensburg
Background: Basic medical education and vocational training as family practitioners (FP) for primary health care, is highly relevant for all health care systems, especially for services in rural areas. Although [...] Although in German me...
„Family-Medicine-Class“: a Teaching Concept for Future Family Practitioners
Summary: Ensuring primary care in rural areas is a major problem in medicalcare, especially in eastern Germany. In order to gain more students for this professional perspective in the future, we have
Still Cause for Hope? Insights into Family Practice in Two Rural Areas in Northrhine-Westfalia
Introduction: In some rural, structurally weak areas in Germany, primary medicalcare is in peril. Fewer family practitioners have to care for a relative constant number of patients (shortage of future
Practical Year Elective as the Key Factor for a Career as a Family Practitioner?
nationwide coverage of primary care services in Germany can only be ensured if more Medical school graduates decide to specialize in Family Medicine and to work in rural areas. The aim of this study was [...] was to investigate the caree
Get Out to the Countryside during Medical Education
An Overview of all Established and Proposed RuralMedical Programs Background: Primary health care in Germany is having enormous problems recruiting young doctors. The United States and Australia
been a notable increase in the number of medicalcare clinics (MVZ) as well as outpatient health centres in Germany – not only in bigger cities, but also in rural areas. This contrasts with
Innovative Models for Securing Health Care in Rural Areas
g health care in rural areas is becoming increasingly difficult. In the meantime, a variety of models and measures has been developed to ensure the long-term provision of health care in rural areas beyond
Summary: Measures to promote family medicine in rural areas are currently much in focus. To familiarize medical students with family medicine in rural areas, it make
