Who wants to be a general practitioner?

Who still wants to be a general practitioner? This is the question posed bluntly by young medical interns when they announce that they are mobilizing, in October, against the project of a fourth year of postgraduate studies as for specialists. But with a “strong incentive” to practice as a junior doctor in a “medical desert”, in other words an area, most often rural but sometimes very urban, in which consulting a private practitioner takes far too long or far too far – and sometimes both.

A priori, this extension of the general medicine internship is nothing like a bomb thrown in the middle of the faculty: the proposal had been formulated during the presidential campaign by Emmanuel Macron as by the candidate of the Republicans. The surveys, carried out by the Order of Physicians in particular, show that this year of study could remove the obstacles to setting up in a practice if these future liberal entrepreneurs learned there to manage accounts or to cope with the mountain of administrative tasks. who awaits them.