There will be a shortage of around a thousand medical interns in the 2024 class. The reason is the entry into force of a new boarding school competition for the class of 2024.
For the first time an oral test, the Ecos, will take place in May. The new test, oral, is the subject of numerous criticisms, in particular on the risk of subjects leaking among the more than 8,000 students who will take the exam. All this while Gabriel Attal announced that he wanted to increase the number of second-year medical students to 16,000 in 2027. But several unions and university officials express their doubts about the State's capacity to mobilize the necessary means to reach this new level. “We are very suspicious because training capacities are limited today,” Jérémy Darenne, president of the National Association of Medical Students (Anemf) explains to AFP. The internship lasts at least four years, so there will be the possibility for hospitals to “smooth out” the accident of 2024 a little.