Eight of the fourteen osteopathic schools that had not received approval at the start of the 2015 school year will get it back next September, for five years.
Relief for eight osteopathic schools which had lost their approval before the start of the 2015 school year. They finally recovered it “for a period of five years from September 1, 2016 to provide training in osteopathy”, specifies the Ministry of Health .
Last summer, the latter had evaluated the training of 37 schools of osteopathy. Among them, only 23 complied with the new specifications put in place in 2014. Thibault Dubois, general delegate of the French Syndicate of Osteopaths (SFDO), then called on the Minister “not to give in and to stay in the spirit of reform “.
“This reform allows each student to leave with the same tools in hand and the same quality of training, which was not the case until now”, approved for his part Mathias Miltenberger, secretary of the Federation of Students in osteopathy (FédEO).
It seems his call was not heeded. Ostéobio, one of the failed schools, which had already received temporary approval following a court decision, would have presented an almost unchanged file.
France holds the world record for the number of osteopaths per capita, with more than 20,000 practitioners across the country. About fifty schools and fifteen university courses train new osteopaths each year, for tuition fees often amounting to 8,000 euros.
(1) These are the Andrew Taylor Still Academy (ATSA), in Limonest, the ATMAN osteopathy center (in Valbonne-Sophia Antipolis, Alpes -Maritimes), the Osteopathic College of the Basque Country (in Biarritz), of the Danhier school of osteopathy (Saint-Ouen, in Seine-Saint-Denis), of the Vichy institute for higher training in osteopathy, of the Bordeaux osteopathy institute, of the European School of osteopathy at the private Alsace campus (in Strasbourg) and at the Ostéobio training establishment (in Cachan, in Val-de-Marne).
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