Relationship between training supervision and evolution of the density of GPs: a 3-year cohort study on French cities between 2018 and 2021.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe database used in this study collects the city of practice of general practitioners supervising medical students (training supervisors). In order not to violate the general data protection regulation, a declaration of this database has been made to the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CNIL). The declaration was made to the Data Protection Officer of the University of Paris Est Créteil and the University of Lille 2. The researchers involved in this work have undertaken to comply with reference methodology number 004 (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/declaration/mr-004-recherches-nimpliquant-pas-la-personne-humaine-etudes-et-evaluations-dans-le). This work has been registered in the public register of studies conducted under the reference methodology. No training supervisor has objected to the use of this data. No ethics committee was involved as no sensitive data were collected. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsAnas TAHA and Sabine BAYEN are members of the National Union of Teachers of General Practice. Marc BAYEN is president of the National College of Academic GPs Formation. Sébastien DAWIDOWICZ, Véronique ORCEL and Thibault PUSZKAREK have no competing interest. Competing interests Anas TAHA and Sabine BAYEN are members of the National Union of Teachers of General Practice. Marc BAYEN is president of the National College of Academic GPs Formation. Sébastien DAWIDOWICZ, Véronique ORCEL and Thibault PUSZKAREK have no competing interest."

"Funding None."