#2019-774Health System Organization and Transformation Law 2019
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This law reorganizes the French health education and healthcare system to improve regional distribution of medical professionals. It changes how medical education is structured and evaluated, introduces new pathways and requirements for entering the medical profession, and sets up experimental programs for better collaboration and shared teaching among different health fields.
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Key Changes
- Redefines medical and health education admissions and structures.
- Introduces experimental programs for shared health education.
- Requires decentralized regional health strategies.
Obligations
What this law requires
Universities must annually determine intake capacity for second and third year students in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and midwifery programs, taking into account multi-year admission objectives for second cycle first year.
Universities must establish multi-year admission objectives for second cycle first year in consultation with Regional Health Agencies (ARS), which must obtain prior consultation from Regional Health and Autonomy Conferences.
Regional Health Agencies must provide binding approval (avis conforme) on multi-year admission objectives established by universities for medical, pharmacy, dentistry, and midwifery programs.
Multi-year national objectives for the number of health professionals to be trained must be established by the State to respond to health system needs, reduce territorial healthcare access inequalities, and ensure student professional insertion.
A decree must be issued defining admission pathways, qualifications, and diplomas allowing access to second or third year of first cycle in medical, pharmacy, dentistry, and midwifery programs.