Fishing for general practitioners is open in the province of Luxembourg
Various workshops
To exempt the approximately 300 budding GPs from these gestures, several workshops were offered over two days. Suture, ultrasound, breastfeeding, infiltrations, so many ways to practice general medicine. A material that regains its luster, after having often been a default choice for medical students. “The trend has been reversed thanks to universities which do not hesitate to move towards general medicinecontinues Laurent Dutrieux. Several years, we can say that it regains its Since letters of nobility.” Witness the 150 students and 150 assistants present at Vayamundo.
Ending the shortage
Will this renewed interest in the profession of generalist be able, in the long term, to curb the shortage that has affected our rural regions in recent years? “It’s a hard trend to measure.expose our interlocutor. We have a good offer but what about the demand? We are in constant dialogue with the general practitioners of the province, municipality by municipality, to fill the gaps. We put things in place but it is not always enough. Especially since the difficulty, in our villages, lies in the fact that the absence of a single general practitioner can impact a lot of inhabitants..” These days organized in Houffalize encourage optimism, however. It is not surprising that some students return year after year.