Question 12831 — health professions

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Mr. Christophe Marion draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the impossibility for masseurs-physiotherapists to perform anatomical dissections at the body donation center - Paris surgery school. Indeed, these health professionals are not among the categories authorized to have access to bodies, in accordance with article R. 1261-12 of the decree of April 27, 2022 relating to the donation of bodies for medical teaching and research purposes (“Training programs involving the use of donated bodies for medical teaching and research purposes concern exclusively the training of members of the medical professions, personnel who work in operating theaters under the supervision of the former and people who intend to practice these professions”). HAS At a time when physiotherapists are being asked to increase their knowledge and skills, it seems paradoxical to deny them access to science-based training, even though unfounded beliefs and assertions are amplified by social networks. It is more necessary than ever to promote the scientific approach, based on the concrete experience of dissection. Physiotherapists, including the main tool is the hand, they need knowledge certified by approach and palpation in situ during dissections on fresh subject, practiced by one of their peers. The apprehension of discrepancies with book knowledge and the discovery of anatomical variants constitute a real revelation for many students, not to mention the considerable psychological and ethical impact witnessed by those who have benefited from a such training. For all these reasons, he would like to know if it plans to review the aforementioned decree in order to allow masseurs-physiotherapists to access, within a strictly supervised framework, anatomical dissection sessions.

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