Opening up private practice to students on DES psychiatry courses: The first internship in France
Thépaut, Mathieu
Opening up private practice to students on DES psychiatry courses: The first internship in France - 2021.
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Following in the wake of their superiors, 40 percent of psychiatry interns consider going into private practice once they have finished their training. However, their courses only involve a small amount of outpatient practice. In 2016, the postgraduate medicine studies reform in France made it possible to train in the private sector by enshrining it in law, thus responding to the wishes of these interns. Today, only the Rennes subdivision has taken the plunge, authorizing a university internship in private psychiatry. Obtaining authorization requires approval from the local health authority and the agreement of the local diplôme d’etudes spécialisées (DES) (specialized postgraduate diploma) coordinator, supported by the writing of an “educational project.” This is a document that argues and justifies the value of this type of internship. Receiving a student also requires training on conducting the internship, and the workspace in question needs to be reconfigured (by creating a second consultation room, for example). This initiative in Rennes, to our knowledge the only one of its kind in France, enables students to gain experience in private psychiatry practice in a supervised environment. It has evolved from semester to semester to respond to academic requirements and to the wishes of the interns. We sincerely hope that colleagues will benefit from this mentoring experience and that this will lead to it being introduced in other regions across France.
Opening up private practice to students on DES psychiatry courses: The first internship in France - 2021.
38
Following in the wake of their superiors, 40 percent of psychiatry interns consider going into private practice once they have finished their training. However, their courses only involve a small amount of outpatient practice. In 2016, the postgraduate medicine studies reform in France made it possible to train in the private sector by enshrining it in law, thus responding to the wishes of these interns. Today, only the Rennes subdivision has taken the plunge, authorizing a university internship in private psychiatry. Obtaining authorization requires approval from the local health authority and the agreement of the local diplôme d’etudes spécialisées (DES) (specialized postgraduate diploma) coordinator, supported by the writing of an “educational project.” This is a document that argues and justifies the value of this type of internship. Receiving a student also requires training on conducting the internship, and the workspace in question needs to be reconfigured (by creating a second consultation room, for example). This initiative in Rennes, to our knowledge the only one of its kind in France, enables students to gain experience in private psychiatry practice in a supervised environment. It has evolved from semester to semester to respond to academic requirements and to the wishes of the interns. We sincerely hope that colleagues will benefit from this mentoring experience and that this will lead to it being introduced in other regions across France.
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