Primary care in rural areas: a qualitative study on medical students’ images and experiences of working in rural areas in southern Germany
Jan Gehrmann, Niklas Barth, Tom Brandhuber, Pascal O. Berberat, Sophie Gigou, Antonius Schneider · 2024
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Jan Gehrmann and co-authors published a 2024 study on how medical students picture working as country doctors in southern Germany. Rural regions struggle to attract general practitioners, and Germany runs programs to change that. One program supports students with teaching and money in exchange for rural placements. Its companion study asks what draws or repels the students themselves.
Researchers interviewed participants repeatedly from 2020 onward; thirty-three interviews fed this analysis. Students carried layered images of rural life and work, shaped by their own past contact with the countryside. Those images colored how they experienced training and whether they could imagine staying. The study reads the interviews through a sociological lens focused on place. Its findings speak to program design: money and teaching alone may not settle the question. A student's felt sense of rural life, formed early, weighs heavily in the career choice.
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| CREATOR | Jan Gehrmann, Niklas Barth, Tom Brandhuber, Pascal O. Berberat, Sophie Gigou, Antonius Schneider |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |