According to a document consulted by AFP, the social security financing bill will include this reform, which could come into force at the start of the academic year 2023.
Le Monde
The social security budget for 2023 will include a measure to extend the studies of future general practitioners by one year, encouraged to complete their curriculum in medical deserts, according to a document from the Ministries of Health and Research consulted consulted Saturday, September 24 by the France-Presse agency (AFP).
“Given the medical demography and the distribution of professionals on the territory, this year of consolidation will be intended to take place in priority in the under-dense zone”, write the Ministers of Health, François Braun, and Higher education, Sylvie Retailleau, in a mission letter addressed to four practitioners responsible for conducting consultation on the project.
The duration of the boarding school of general medicine will go from three to four years, a minimum duration already applied for all other disciplines. With this additional year, the training time for general practitioners would thus be brought to ten years.
“The addition of this phase of consolidation to the diploma of specialized studies of general medicine, which would be exercised exclusively in outpatient practice, would aim to supplement training, thus aligned with other diplomas of specialized studies”, explain the Ministers recalling a promise of candidate Macron.
The President of the Republic had, in fact, promised during his campaign to “deploy the fourth year of boarding school for general practitioners in rural areas”, a means among others to send “a massive reinforcement in the medical deserts “.
included in the social security financing bill presented Monday in the Council of Ministers, this reform should “enter into force at the start of the school year 2023”, specify the two ministers. For them, the stated objective is also to “arm young general practitioners in anticipation of a quick installation”, when many today favor the status of replacement.