An amendment plans to repeal a decree passed in 2004 which prevented medical students from taking their thesis after 2012.
Scrupulously, studiously, they climbed the levels of medicine – the competition, the day school, the boarding school. But they have not yet passed their thesis and, for multiple reasons, have put this project on hold.
Since 2012, these quasi-doctors have been plunged into the greatest disarray: forbidden to pass their thesis because of an ubiquitous regulation. Prohibited, therefore, to exercise apart from a few replacements – and again, limited in time. A particularly incomprehensible situation, while France lists a growing number of medical deserts, but which could well evolve.
The message didn’t get through
One amendment government to the mountain bill provides that students in general medicine of the old regime (residents) can re-enroll at the university to present their thesis, while this was prohibited to them. The text, drafted by the Council of State, will be examined at second reading on Wednesday.
It is thus a question of changing a regulation adopted in 2004 during the reform of medical studies. This obliges all generalist students of the old regime to defend their thesis before the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Problem: the message never got through to the main people concerned, who just had to throw all these years of study in the trash…
At the end of November, Marisol Touraine promised to remedy this Kafkaesque and unjust situation. In a press release, the National Union of Young General Practitioners (SNJMG), which has been mobilizing since the fall of 2013 “to find a dignified solution to these dramatic situations”, welcomed this development.
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