The deputies voted for it last March. The end of the numerus clausus for health studies, which sets each year the number of places open in the second year of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and midwifery, will be effective from 2020. In the meantime, from the start of the 2019 school year, 14,928 places all routes combined will be open, regulates a order published this Easter weekend in the Official Journal. That is 1,405 places (10%) more than last year. The number of second-year students will therefore be raised to a record level.
In detail, the increase will be greater for doctors, who will be 1,109 more to be trained, or 9,314 in total. The number of educated dentists will be increased by 117, or 1,320 in all. Pharmacists will be 137 more (3,261 places) while midwives 42 (1,033 places).
More professionals, better distributed
This decree of the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, precedes by a few weeks the competition for the First common year of health studies, the PACES. This news may well reassure its students, subject to very strong pressure. From the start of the 2020 school year, this conventional passageway as well as the numerus clausus should be definitively abolished within the framework of the Health Law, already adopted by the National Assembly. The Senate review is scheduled for June.
To replace the existing system, the professor of medicine Jean-Paul Saint-André and his team, commissioned by the government, proposed the creation of a “health portal”. Finally, the text provides that the quotas of students admitted in the second and third year are determined by the universities, in agreement with the regional health agencies, according to the capacities and needs of the territories.
The goal? Fight against medical deserts and allow a better distribution of doctors and specialists in the territory. But also stop the “Human mess” that causes, according to Agnès Buzyn, the current “sorting” between the first and the second year of medicine. Last February, the minister declared that the reform aimed “To increase by about 20% the number of trained doctors”.
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