Medical students. Francois Brown assures that there will be plenty of practice leaders

Health Minister Francois Brown has assured medical students who are protesting against the extension of future GP practices that the government will do enough.practice managers“Next to them, Sunday, during the show”Grand Jury» RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. “I listen and understand students’ concerns“He said when he was questioned by Anemf president Yael Thomas (medical students) about the possible lack of supervision in this 10th year (4th year of boarding school) of additional studies.

“We will place the required number of Practice Managers sufficient to supervise you. We will increase the positions of teachers in general medicine, we will put everything on the table, all means, so that this fourth year will be a truly professional year.“, Francois Brown added, while the draft social security budget for 2023, which envisages this reform, returns to MPs for a new reading on Monday.

“We are discussing with a group of four people who are responsible for (…) reviewing (…) this four-year training. At the end of this work we will estimate the number of practice heads and I will provide the fundsrepeated the minister. He also claimed that “general medicine is the only profession in France without any accountability this year, “junior doctor». And when we look at Europe, (…) we are one of those rare countries that do not have at least four years of training in general medicine.“.

The minister denied the idea that this 4th year is intended to cure the shortage of doctors in medical deserts. he”aims to provide better training to our future GPs– he assured. “It is for the students to discover these areas as soon as possible, also in this fourth year, if they want, it is not necessary for them to want to settle there.“, he admitted.