Insee Première · November 2024 · n° 2024

Private general practitioners often set up practice close to their birthplace or to the university where they did their internship

In 2019, the geographical distribution of general practitioners trained in the 2000s did not fit to the population distribution. In particular, they were more concentrated in the areas of provincial towns with population over 200,000. The birthplace and the university in which they did their medical internship both were important determinants of the place where they settle. By 2019, 50% of general practitioners trained in the 2000s worked within 85 km of their birthplace, and 50% within 43 km of the university where they were intern. After a period of several years during which relocation were relatively frequent, their place of practice stabilized: in the twelfth year after the internship, around 96% practiced in the same municipality as the previous year.