[Can narrative medicine be an answer to patient physician relationship teaching according to students' demand in medical education curricula?].

Introduction: Coming from literature and medicine and medical humanities north American seminars, narrative medicine has applied narratology for analyzing patients' discourse and has been taught during a decade.

Methods: At Paris Descartes School of Medicine a twenty-hour narrative medicine elective program including whole class lectures and writing and reading small group exercises for second year medical students has been assessed using satisfaction questionnaires.

Results: Although several students were uncomfortable with the first writing and reading exercises, the whole satisfaction scores demonstrate that this new program is very well appreciated even when students did not choose this program because they were interested with the patient physician relationship.

Work week duration, work-family balance and difficulties encountered by female and male physicians: results from the French SESMAT study.

Objective: France encounters difficulties attracting physicians to work in hospitals. Organisation at work and at home may be at the heart of the problem for female as well as for male physicians.

Participants: A comprehensive questionnaire was filled out online by a representative sample of 1924 French hospital physicians.

Emergency physicians accumulate more stress factors than other physicians-results from the French SESMAT study.

Introduction: France is facing a shortage of available physicians due to a greying population and the lack of a proportional increase in the formation of doctors. Emergency physicians are the medical system's first line of defence.

Methods: The authors prepared a comprehensive questionnaire using established scales measuring various aspects of working conditions, satisfaction and health of salaried physicians and pharmacists.