2024-04-15 16:06:15
“We are going to have around a thousand fewer interns” compared to some 9,500 interns from the previous promotion, indicates Professor Benoît Veber, president of the Conference of Deans of Medical Faculties.
The reason for this dropout? The entry into force of the new competition for the class of 2024, with the introduction of the famous ECOS which will take place in May.
A small part of the class of 2024 decided to repeat their fifth year of medicine, so as not to get stuck.
“The repetition rate in fifth year was 7%, compared to 3%” usually, according to Dean Veber.
In addition to these approximately 660 students who preferred to postpone the competition by one year, there are approximately 240 students eliminated in the written phase of the competition, which, for the first time, introduced a principle of eliminatory marks.
Limited consequences
This gap has worried some elected officials, given the importance of interns in the operation of the hospital and the shortage of current caregivers.
But for Benoît Veber, the consequences for hospitals will be limited.
“The following year, we will have a high wave”, he explains. Furthermore, the internship lasts at least four years, there will be the possibility for hospitals to “smooth” a bit like the accident of 2024, he explains.
However, the new competition may not have finished making headlines.
https://www.whatsupdoc-lemag.fr/article/manque-dinternes-dans-les-hopitaux-pourquoi-comment-combien
The ECOS are the subject of numerous criticisms, in particular on the risk of subjects leaking among the more than 8,000 students who will take the exam throughout France.
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