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KCE Reports 90 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention 99
Table 15: Differences of perception in relation with the stakeholder’s
linguistic regime: percentages (n=102)
Location
Frenchspeaking
Dutch-speaking
% %
1. Remuneration of working hours 98.1 89.6
2. Attractiveness after 7 years 96.3 89.6
3. Chances to stay in the profession 75.9 83.3
4. Working conditions 66.0 56.5
5. Compatibility working hours with quality of life 49.1 54.3
6. Interest of the work 39.6 27.7
6.6.2 What are the most important policies for each topic?
This part presents the results of the most important policies in the stakeholders’ point
of view to improve GPs attraction, recruitment and retention. For each topic, this
analysis is made in 2 steps:
1. Description of the average ranks and scores,
2. Qualitative comments regarding the relevance or the implementation of
the policies.
3. The influence of the criteria on the policies
As explained in the method, this analysis is presented by topic of policies: teaching and
training, financing, work-life balance and health care organization.
6.6.2.1 Teaching and training policies
The literature study and the study on the students showed that teaching and training
are very important issues in order to attract GPs. Two policies were singled out in the
teaching topic (Table 16: Preferred teaching and training policies: mean ranks and scores
• The integration of a GP approach in all master courses got a mean
rank of 1.81;
• Next the compulsory clerkship in General Practice with an average
rank of 1.91.
Table 16: Preferred teaching and training policies: mean ranks and scores
(n=102)
Teaching and training policies
Mean Mean
rank score
1. Integrate a GP approach in all Master courses 1.81 5.56
2. Compulsory clerkships in GP for all medical students 1.91 5.55
3. Better selection of the medical students according to their 2.63 5.06
social and communication skills
4. To develop a Clinical Academic activity for general practice 3.51 4.33
The integration of a GP approach in all master courses had a mean score of 5.56 as the
compulsory clerkships in GP for all medical students.
The reasons evoked by the stakeholders for preferring the integration of a GP approach
in all the master courses is the fact that it will improve the GP status among specialists
and students together with a better knowledge of each others’ work. A multidisciplinary
approach of health problems is a goal to attain and this policy is perceived as a good
support regarding this purpose. The interviewees take this opportunity to talk about
the lectures that should be renewed: a more practical approach, a good balance