Several hundred medical students demonstrated Wednesday in Toulouse their opposition to the creation of a fourth year of internship in general medicine, to be carried out as a priority in medical deserts, noted an AFP journalist. “No, no, no to coercionchanted the procession of students opposed to several provisions of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), adopted by the National Assembly and soon to be examined in the Senate.
Among the measures decried, the establishment of a fourth year of internship in general medicine, but also the prohibition to practice as a temporary worker upon leaving studies. “This is the door open to other coercive measures», Judge Sohan Annoussamy, third-year medical student and co-organizer of the event. “The pedagogical argument of the fourth year does not hold because it will not be well supervised“, he believes, pointing to the lack of internship supervisors.
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There are too few doctors throughout the territory and this measure would be “counter-productivehe fears. “Because of this fourth year, there are students who will not go to general medicine“. “We don’t mind doing another year and going to the countryside, but in these conditions we will be poorly trained and it will be dangerous for the patients.», Estimates Aïda Ghallab, 24, a sixth-year medical student. “A patient in Creuse, for example, will have a young doctor for a year, who will leave, come back and change, so there will be no follow-up possible.“, she judges. If the students say they want measures to facilitate in particular the realization of internships in under-resourced areas, they refuse to overcome the failures of the health system alone.