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Become a country doctor

Become a country doctor

Proximity to people, variety in the job, life with the family or a rural environment - every family doctor has precise ideas about his or her everyday working life. There are many opportunities for rural doctors to practise their profession in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Whether as an individual practice or in a community, in the form of employment or full- or part-time: the modern rural doctor models for setting up a practice can be customised here according to personal wishes.


Become a country doctor in Hesse: Study medicine from the winter semester 2023/2024 onwards

In Hesse, interested students can now apply for one of the quota-based places to study medicine for the winter semester. In this way, the state wants to strengthen the public health service and general practitioner care in Hesse, as later employment in one of these areas is a condition for access to the places. Applications are possible from 1 February to 28 February 2023.

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Become a country doctor - in Waldeck-Frankenberg