Training structure
Antenne Médecine (Nîmes site) , Faculty of Medicine
Presentation
The third cycle of medical studies is based on the Examen Classant National (ECN). Depending on their ranking, students choose their future specialty from among 11 disciplines:
- medical specialties
- surgical specialties
- general medicine
- anesthesia - intensive care
- medical biology
- medical gynecology
- gynecology-obstetrics
- occupational medicine
- pediatrics
- psychiatry
- public health and social medicine
Each discipline corresponds to one or more Diplomas of Specialized Studies (DES).
The Diplôme d'Etat de Docteur en Médecine is awarded 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 (Diploma of Specialized Studies) Medicine
DESC (Diplôme d'Études Spécialisées Complémentaires) Medicine
The length 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
Medical studies offer a variety of career options:
- hospital and liberal professions
- hospital, teaching and research
- self-employed and salaried
- administrative (medical consultant, legal expert, etc.)
- industrial research