[Evolution of attractiveness of Medical Biology to medical students in 2022].

Since 2010, the postgraduate training diploma in laboratory medicine has experienced a strong decline in its attractiveness to French medical students. This work aims to objectify and quantify this decline between 2004 and 2021. To do so, we have carried out an analyze of the trend to choose laboratory medicine after the national ranking review performed by all French students.

Improving patient pathways for systemic lupus erythematosus: a multistakeholder pathway optimisation study.

Objective: Among the most significant challenges in SLE are the excessive diagnosis delay and the lack of coordinated care. The aim of the study was to investigate patient pathways in SLE in order to improve clinical and organisational challenges in the management of those with suspected and confirmed SLE.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients with SLE, healthcare providers and other representative stakeholders.

Clinical pathologists and physician in France: which partnership and which future?

Medical biology is a major area of medical specialization in French health care system. It is going through massive changes in public as in private sector since the 2010 Ballereau edict with the merging of laboratories and new quality standards based on accreditation. We have suggested that physicians had a negative feeling about the restructuring of medical biology in recent years.