Saône-et-Loire is launching a unique initiative: Installs a doctor. A “schoolboy” site and financial advantages: everything is good to attract new doctors.
In line with the “Adopte un mec” site, the Saône-et-Loire is setting up a one-of-a-kind site. Since October 8, the department offers the site installeunmedecin.com. The objective is to fight against medical desertification.
A “schoolboy” site to attract doctors
The department relies on a site that it assumes as a “schoolboy” and on new technologies to motivate young doctors: presence on social networks, website compatible with tablets and mobiles … The website even includes a “Saône” tab. -et-Loire “worthy of the most beautiful tourist office. It promotes its transport network and its good connections with large cities. He also praises his cultural successes and his “ambitious” projects. Everything shows the dynamism of the department and its energy. Playful and colorful, the site nonetheless forgets its objective: to show practitioners that the Saône-et-Loire is putting the means to attract them.
The General Council is firing on all cylinders and offers three components: students, graduate doctors, communities. In the municipalities, the Council of Saône-et-Loire offers to help recruiting by funding firms. Side medical schools, a call of the foot is made to the students. A monthly grant of € 1,000 is awarded to postgraduate students under the promise of setting up a firm in the department for 3 years. But it is the medical graduates who have the most to gain from this partnership. The General Council contributes to the financing and the travel expenses. An installation check covers 50% of the sum, with a ceiling of € 5,000.
A department gradually abandoned by liberal doctors
Saône-et-Loire is therefore doing everything it can to attract doctors because the department is gradually deserting. Since 2009, the department has lost 24 doctors, or almost 4% of its medical population. There are currently 88 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants. It is well below the national average. The average age of a doctor is 52, but more than a quarter of them are over 60.
This degradation worries the General Council, which encourages the installation and development of its doctors. In the medium term, the department wishes to promote the salaried staff of practitioners, like the initiative of Domats (Yonne) which has just opened a health center for lack of being able to recruit liberal doctors. Over time, telemedicine should also be developed in the most isolated areas of Saône-et-Loire. Still, this original and modern initiative could well inspire other medical deserts.
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