[Creation and functioning of Covid-19 pre-hospital triage centres : experience of french-speaking GP-coordinators].

Pre-hospital triage centres were created during the first wave of Covid-19 in March 2020. The intention was to examine patients in appropriate sanitary conditions and prevent emergency departments from overcrowding. This study describes triage centres in the Federation Wallonia-Brussels.

Interprofessional collaboration between general practitioners and primary care nurses in Belgium: a participatory action research.

Given the sociodemographic challenges facing the Belgian primary care system, it is essential to strengthen interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between healthcare providers. Therefore, our aims for this study were to assess IPC between general practitioners (GPs) and nurses; identify target priorities for improving IPC; and facilitate the planning and implementation of the proposed improvement strategies. Based on diversity criteria, six groups of GPs and nurses were chosen for a participatory action research.

Exploring the diverse career trajectories of general practice graduates in the French-speaking part of Belgium: An interview study.

Background: Several European countries face a shortage of general practitioners (GPs), in part due to GP attrition. Most studies of GP attrition have focussed on why GPs decide to leave. Yet understanding why GPs decide to remain may also elicit potential interventions to reduce attrition.

[Long-term follow-up of survivors of cancer : general practitioner's role and resources].

More and more patients surviving cancer consult again their general practitioner for various reasons. The aim of this article is to consider ways to reinforce the role of the general practitioners in the follow-up protocol. Two candidates for general practice synthetized, based on literature review, cancer follow-up information of childhood cancer, breast and colorectal cancers.

Harley William Moon (1936-2018).

Harley William Moon,DVM, Ph.D., an outstanding American person and researcher of comparative microbiology and pathology of intestinal diseases, the former director of the USDA, ARS, National Animal Disease Center (Iowa), of Plum Island Animal Disease Center (New York) and of Veterinary Research Institute of Iowa State University, member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) passed away after some difficult and lonely last years of his life, on October 7, 2018 at the age of 82.