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The Cotentin plays the card of seduction to attract future doctors to this territory. The region relies on its tourist assets and offers medical interns a weekend to come and discover its many charms. #TheyHaveTheSolution
This is a puzzle with which many regions are increasingly confronted: medical desertification. In the Cotentin, we decided to organize a seduction operation to attract future practitioners. A hundred interns, most of them attached to the University of Caen, were invited to discover some of the assets of this territory, during a weekend.
The program offers a real postcard of the Cotentin with nautical activities, hikes and visits. Some are already projecting themselves there, like Anne-Charlotte David, intern in general medicine. “I’m already conquered by Normandy, it’s a very beautiful region that offers a good quality of life. On weekends we go for a hike and we are directly by the sea, in nature, it’s great“.
This is the 7th edition of this operation called “Les paradis du Cotentin”. “We are doing everything to attract doctors, to tell them that this territory is pleasant, and that they can obviously come there”, explains Jacques Coquelin, the mayor of Valognes in the Manche department. A region in which fifteen doctors have died since the launch of this operation. Practitioners who play sales reps with these interns, with whom they were able to address the issue of installation, in a very concrete way. “The advantage for someone who is setting up is that there is a lot of patient demand, there is not a lot of competition, it’s reassuring when you start a new activity”, testifies Clémence Lefranc, gynecologist in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.
A winning bet for the organizers of this weekend. In recent years, almost all the doctors who have settled in the region have taken part in the “Paradis du Cotentin”.
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