June 04, 2019.
The last year of studies in the third cycle of general medicine studies and certain specialties, will take place in priority in areas without doctors. This is the decision adopted by the senators on the night of Monday 3 to Tuesday 4 June 2019. This “transpartisan” device was voted by 311 votes against 16.
An efficient and rapid response
The medical desert indicates a density of doctors compared to the population, 30% lower than the French average. While one might think that the problem is only in the countryside, some districts of Paris also lack doctors. Even if this amendment does not answer all the problems in order to fight against the medical deserts, it brings a pragmatic response to the shortage of doctors in France.
By adopting this device, they are thousands of doctors who will be distributed throughout the country. This third year would become a practical year in autonomy. Health professionals could thus be trained in an office or in a nursing home and outside the hospital. The Senate is pleased to have been able to provide a concrete answer as fast.
Shortened training
However, the ministers Agnès Buzyn and Frédérique Vidal were unfavorable to this device by evoking a move away from the training process. Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, regrets that the training of doctors is shortened by one year to compensate for the lack of professionals in certain areas of the territory.
Michel Amiel (LREM) is in favor of this device of the bill which he considers ” reasonable “. According to him, this decision will allow ” half-open the doors without taking coercive measures “. For its part, the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Environmentalist (CRCE) group believes that hospitals are also short of doctors.
The Senate continues to examine the bill. Monday evening, the new organization of the first cycle of medical studies and the abolition of the numerus clausus were approved.
Stephanie Haerts
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