TRIBUNE – While medical interns are demonstrating this Friday against extending their studies by one year, a group of caregivers is proposing five alternative measures to remedy the collateral effects of current training.
Since the early 2000s, the extension of medical deserts has become a major factor in health inequalities. The recent increase in the number of medical promotions will not be enough to solve this problem, most future doctors not being sufficiently encouraged to settle in these areas. And if the training of doctors in France has a tradition of excellence for two centuries, training excellent doctors, but who are not easily accessible for the whole of the French population, is something to astonish our fellow citizens… But the adaptation of our medical training system could help in certain aspects. Training impacts medical desertification through three main phenomena.
1. Extension of studies
Until the end of the 1990s, general medicine was learned in eight years, the last two years of which were mainly spent in so-called peripheral hospitals (and not in university hospitals), which encouraged the installation…
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