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62 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention KCE Reports 90
• informal negative values on GP are communicated by the academic
teachers of the faculty,
• high quality clerkships are essential for students to make their specialty
choice,
• the complexity of general practice is an issue for the students, although
their perception of this complexity varies according to the fact that
they opted or not for general practice.
Some factors play a positive role to attract the students to the GP profession:
• a personal affinity becomes clear in the 7 th year of the core curriculum.
GP students opt for a large scope of knowledge while other specialty
students are more interested in a more circumscribed area of
knowledge,
• general practice students hold a more positive opinion than other
students about the difficult working conditions of GPs (solitary,
availability),
• however, all students perceive general practice as having less status,
with a lower remuneration,
The students formulated suggestions in the interviews and quantitative study:
• the selection of students should take account of the particular profile
of future GP specialists i.e. more oriented towards the human aspects
of the profession and to the GP specialty (holistic view, all ages…);
• The image and position of general practice departments should
improve in the faculties of medicine;
• The quality of GP teaching and of GP clerkships should improve as
powerful factors to attract the students ;
• GP students propose to strengthen the position of general practice in
the health care system including e.g., a gate keeping role, a
remuneration equal to other specialties, solutions to guarantee the
continuity of care.