Not one but two potentially explosive measures.
The government presents Monday its draft budget 2023 and that of the financing of Social Security.
In addition to the social risk if the executive introduces its very controversial pension reform, another measure could arouse discontent: a fourth year of study for general medicine interns, encouraged to do it in medical deserts.
While 10% of French people cannot find a general practitioner, not to mention the specialists whom it takes months of patience to consult - 13 departments, for example, have no gynecologist -, the Minister of Health François Braun had undertaken to intensify the struggle;
according to the JDD and the Figaro, he will propose an amendment on Monday allowing general medicine students to be sent to medical deserts.
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Currently, after six years and a competition, general medicine is the only discipline for which the internship lasts three years.
This fourth year, done on an outpatient basis, would allow the government to encourage interns to practice in the territories least well endowed with doctors, in the countryside or in the suburbs.
It remains to be seen what the incentives will consist of.
The modalities have not yet been set, the Ministry of Health and that of Higher Education should determine them through a joint mission.
When ?
If the measure is not contested, which is likely to be the case, it will not concern students currently in their third year of internship.
The promotion will be concerned which will take the competition next June and will begin internship in the fall of 2024. These future doctors should therefore practice in the medical deserts in the fall of 2027.