Training structure
Medicine branch (Nîmes site), Faculty of Medicine
Presentation
The third cycle of medical studies is accessible through the Examen Classant National (ECN). According to his ranking, the student determines his future specialty among 11 disciplines:
- medical specialties
- surgical specialties
- general medicine
- anesthesia - resuscitation
- medical biology
- medical gynecology
- gynecology and obstetrics
- occupational medicine
- pediatrics
- psychiatry
- public health and social medicine
Each discipline corresponds to one or more Diplomas of Specialized Studies (DES).
The State diploma of Doctor of Medicine is conferred after :
- validation of the Diploma of Specialized Studies
- the successful defense of a thesis at the end of the internship, during which the student takes the Hippocratic oath.
cf :
DES (Diplomas of Specialized Studies) Medicine
DESC (Diploma of Complementary Specialized Studies) Medicine
The duration of postgraduate studies varies from 3 years (general medicine: Bac +9) to 5 years (other specialties: Bac +11).
https://facmedecine.umontpellier.fr/etudes-et-formations/etudes-en-medecine/theses/
Admission
Capacity
And then
Further studies
Professional integration
The opportunities of medical studies have different orientations:
- hospital and liberal
- hospital, teaching and research
- liberal and salaried
- administrative (medical consultant, legal expert...)
- industrial research