The Senate validated this Wednesday the expansion of the training of general practitioners within the framework of the examination of the Secu budget project, by establishing a fourth year of internships as a priority in areas insufficiently equipped with doctors.
These practices must be carried out “totally on an outpatient basis” supervised by professionals since the senators rejected a government proposal that opened the way to practices also in a hospital environment, a gesture demanded by the students.
Too much rotation?
The Minister of Health, François Braun, explained that “general medicine (was) the only one that had only three years of training and no year of consolidation.” He also guaranteed that 14,000 supervising interns would be available.
“It is counterproductive in view of the implicit objective of permanently overcoming the lack of doctors,” criticized environmentalist senator Raymonde Poncet Monge, arguing that the “turnover” would be too high and would harm the quality of care.
On the possibility of internships in hospitals, the communist Pierre Ouzoulias had denounced “a new category of assistants in the public hospital that is bankrupt.”
The left also lamented a “lack of consultation” with the student unions, which oppose this signaling of practices in areas that they have not chosen. The National Intersyndicale des Interns (Isni), angered by this measure, called demonstrations on November 17 for the withdrawal of this fourth-year proposal.
The minister defended himself by specifying that “there is (there was) no obligation to practice in sparse territories” but rather “a stronger incentive for students to discover territories”.
Source: BFM TV
