‘Medical system’

Master’s Degree in Physical Activity and Health

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Understand and prepare alternative regimens that involve taking behavior that reduces the possibility of disease, distress and suffering (biopsychosocial model).

The Master is designed for university graduates (undergraduate and graduate) in Physical Activity Sciences, Psychology, Education, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Medicine and graduated in Physical Education Teaching. (more…)

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Medical Student Development

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

  • Following the events of May 68, the assistance of the clerkship was removed, and all medical students followed the training quality practice what the clerkship, became mandatory (the term “external” then disappeared texts, replaced by the term “student hospital”). This corresponds to the ideal university hospital (CHU creation in 1958): Action (externship) and theory (courses at the university) are reconciled in a single curriculum for all. With the law Faure, Medical schools become EBU (then Department from 1984) integrated into a university.
  • This reform, correlated with the overall increase in student population, led to a massive influx of students in the departments of university hospitals. In response, he was then introduced in 1971 a competition for end of first year medical student, with a system of numerus clausus
  • Until the 1990s, any doctor could become a specialist, or through the hospital and selective way of boarding, or through non-selective and university certificates of specialized studies (CES) in lower quality, thus leaving develop a medicine that specializes in speed between two “old internal hospital” and “old heads of clinical hospital” on the one hand, and holders of these other. A reform, therefore, suppressed the ESC medical internship and went to the mandatory “Qualification ordinal” of specialists, through the Diploma of specialized studies (DES), complements the degree of doctor of medicine.
  • Interns were forced to do an internship in “hospital device, that is to say non-academic, part of a Regional Hospital or CHR.
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Health System & Public Health

Thursday, March 4th, 2010


The practice of medicine is exercised within the economic framework, legal and official medical system that is part of national health systems (state health policies). The characteristics under which manages the health system in general and in particular the medical body, exert a significant effect on how the health service and health care can be utilized by the general population.

One of the most important variable for operation of the system corresponds to the financial area and a state budget that invests in health. Another variable involves human resources that articulate the directives of the health system. The other side of the coin in terms of medical care is given by the private health service. The fees and health service costs are borne by the contractor, being thus generally restricted to service classes economically solvent.

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