It is the rendezvous of higher education, Auversup is held from this Thursday and until this Saturday at the Grande Halle de Cournon-d’Auvergne. Between training in the humanities and business schools, the stands for medical and paramedical courses attract many final year students. Among them, we find Elsa, tempted by studies of medicine or pharmacy: “I really like the whole immune side in what we have seen in SVT (Life and Earth Science): the cell, the human body…”.
“Future generations have realized the importance of medical studies”, Lisa, medical student
Coming from Yssingeaux, Sybille, who would like to become an orthoptist or ophthalmologist, remains motivated despite the global pandemic: “In any case, we need to treat people whether there is Covid or not, so we must continue, we must not stop”. Behind her stand, Lisa, a second-year medical student in Clermont-Ferrand welcomes and informs students. For her, the Covid period could even create vocations: “I think it was still more positive than negative, especially for future generations who realized the importance of medical studies”.
– Pierre Frasiak
And the demands also remain strong in paramedical training. Jennifer Merigaud, educational director of the Clermont-Ferrand speech therapy university training center, assures us: “I think that the health professions are indeed attracting more and more, especially with the Covid, and speech therapy is also there since we work with post-Covid patients”.
For high school students interested in medical training, but also in other courses, the Auversup fair continues until this Saturday at 5 p.m., at the Grande Halle in Cournon d’Auvergne.