[Training of foreign physicians in France. Analysis and suggestions].

The training of foreign physicians in France raises difficult problems unsolved so far but new measures are being studied. The critical analysis of the current situation can help find out solutions which provide a better answer to current needs both for students wishing to follow a complete training in France and for those, already M. D.

[Foreign physicians practicing in France (problems posed by the application of the law of July 13, 1972)].

The 13 July 1972 law defined a procedure which applies to physicians wishing to practise in France but who don't meet the double requirement: having the French nationality (or being a citizen of a member state of the European Union) and holding the national diploma of Doctor of Medicine (or a diploma of the European Community). The Minister, in agreement with a commission in charge of examining the applications one by one, determines each year the number of authorizations to be possibly granted. The applications mainly come from physicians of the Mediterranean area who came to France to follow a specialized training and who, sometimes, have been practising in French hospitals for many years.