The Bavarian Minister of Health is satisfied with the program for studying rural medicine, but are there any effects at all? Visiting Aub in Lower Franconia, where they are heading for a “catastrophe”.
The Free State is “on the right track,” said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) a few days ago, “to counteract the impending shortage of general practitioners and the shortage of doctors in the public health service.” What moved him to this statement is the continued high demand for places for the so-called country doctor course. This year, 376 more or less young people applied for the 113 available places to start their medical studies without qualification qua numerus clausus.