Effectiveness of rural internships for veterinary students to combat veterinary workforce shortages in rural areas.

ABSTRACT: Veterinarians are a pivotal force in addressing animal health and welfare surveillance, with a critical role in improving public health security and increasing the profits of livestock farmers. Yet, the veterinary profession is adversely affected by personnel shortages, particularly in rural areas. Since the health of people, animals and their shared environment are interconnected in a One Health perspective, a set of policies are required to ensure public health by attraction and retention of veterinarians in rural areas. In France, a tutored internship programme, financially subsiding students and mentors to execute a training period in remote rural areas, was promoted to better integrate and retain veterinary students ending their veterinary training. This paper aims to evaluate how vet

SUBMITTER: Berrada M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10919651 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature