Faced with the emergency crisis and the shortage of caregivers in the hospital, the new Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, will also have to respond to the demands of medical students. Junior doctors demand clarification of the reform of the internship competition, which is still not finalized, and especially the withdrawal of the fourth year general medicine project.
The government has indeed decided to extend the general medicine internship by one year, which will go from three to four years, bringing the total duration of studies to become a general practitioner to ten years. This fourth year, which will have to be done in part in the “medical deserts”, must apply from the start of the next school year. Faced with already long studies, marked by 18% dropout, students have the impression of being used to plug the holes. “We are going to be requisitioned from all over France, on the pretext of training us, in reality to remedy the shortcomings of the health system, castigates Alexis Loupan, president of the Anemf student union. The fight against inequalities in access to care is a priority. But solutions cannot be built in haste, trying to make up for years of wandering,” he continues.
Especially since with internship locations that are far from the faculties, with no accommodation available, students are forced to travel at their own expense. The ANEMF is therefore calling for an increase in the transport allowance, an extension of the accommodation allowance to internships carried out in peripheral hospitals and an increase in the remuneration of hospital students to the tune of 390 euros per month.
