They want to protest against the extension of their studies by one year, a measure announced Monday as part of the Social Security financing bill 2023 and supposed to make it possible to fight against medical deserts.
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Towards a strike of medical interns. Their main union announced on Monday, September 26, “a great mobilization” in October to protest against the one-year extension of their studies, which the government wishes to direct “in priority” to medical deserts. The bill on the financing of Social Security (PLFSS) 2023 provides for the addition of a “year of consolidation” in the course of future general practitioners, which would be carried out outside the hospital and “priority in under-resourced areas”.
The National Intersyndicale des Interns (Isni) sees it as a “injustice” and “formally opposes” to this extent “coercive”which she does not expect “no solution to the problems of access to care”. Isni accuses the executive “to instrumentalize doctors in training to respond at a lower cost” to the problem of medical deserts. The union deplores a reform “carried out without consultation” and predicted that she “short for disaster”.
[Communiqué de Presse] The #internal should no longer be the adjustment variables of a system of #health adrift ! pic.twitter.com/nP8kK5EreY
– ISNI – National Intersyndicate of Interns (@ISNItwit) September 26, 2022
The stated objective is “to improve the training of young doctors and facilitate their subsequent installation”, explained the Minister of Health, François Braun, on Monday evening, during a hearing on this bill before the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly. The government is aiming for its reform to come into force at the start of the 2023 academic year and has commissioned “four recognized field professionals” to lead “the consultation that requires such a commitment”said François Braun.
This extension is even “requested by health professionals”who believe “that in three years they do not have a satisfactory level of training”, particularly in pediatrics, gynecology and management of a medical practice. This is the reason why “young people settle down very little and prefer to do one or two replacement years” early in his career, he added. The Minister also recalled that “the President of the Republic was committed” to carry out this reform during its last election campaign.