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

Berrada Mehdi, Raboisson Didier, Lhermie Guillaume. 2024. Effectiveness of rural internships for veterinary students to combat veterinary workforce shortages in rural areas. PloS One, 19 (3):e0294651, 19 p.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294651

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Résumé : 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 veterinarians' tutored internships influences students' choices for rural practice, using three different statistical methods derived from causal inference theory. Using survey data for the period 2016–2020, we show that: (i) the average effect of the tutored internship on veterinarians' work in food animal sector is not significant; and that (ii) the tutored internship leads veterinarians with a low share of work in the food animal sector to have a rural practise after they graduated between 13 and 20% greater than those who did not participate in the tutored internship.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : vétérinaire, zone rurale, santé publique, santé animale, approche Une seule santé, pénurie, service vétérinaire, politique sanitaire, politique publique

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : France

Mots-clés libres : Program evaluation, Public policy, Veterinarian shortage

Classification Agris : L70 - Sciences et hygiène vétérinaires - Considérations générales

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 4 (2019-) - Santé des plantes, des animaux et des écosystèmes

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