Telemedicine and the Attractiveness of a Family Medicine Career Among Hungarian Medical Students: Implications for the Digital Health Primary Care Workforce

Background/Objectives: Telemedicine expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic and is now embedded in primary care, a field facing an acute workforce crisis. Whether it could make a general practitioner (GP) career more attractive to future physicians has largely been unexplored. We assessed fifth-year medical students’ perceptions of telemedicine and factors associated with viewing it as increasing the attractiveness of GP work.