medical students will have to complete a year of internship in a medical desert

For medical students, it will now take ten years to be a general practitioner, instead of nine years previously. They will have to do an additional year of training in boarding school. The government would like these future doctors to do this last year in medical deserts. A godsend for some professionals, seeing it as a way “to be seconded“, but also for the inhabitants, some of whom hope that “it may give them a taste of the countryside and the province”.

To push future graduates towards these often rural areas, the government promises financial aid. However, the Minister of Health, François Braun, affirms that this will remain an incentive and not an obligation, in accordance with what the union of medical students wanted. The measure will be presented in Council of Ministers within the framework of the bill on social security. It should be voted on in Parliament.