Question 14293 — health professions

Summary

Mr. Nicolas Pacquot draws the attention of the Minister of Health and Prevention to the training of new practitioners in physical medicine and rehabilitation (MPR), a medical specialty which aims to regain the proper functioning of an organ or part of the body, secondary to a disability caused by an illness. According to the World Health Organization, rehabilitation is an essential element of universal health coverage, in the same way as health promotion, prevention, therapeutic and palliative care. Furthermore, changing health and population characteristics are expected to lead to an increase in the need for rehabilitation worldwide, because as people live longer, they experience more chronic illnesses and disabilities. However, in France, no practitioner can anymore train in physical medicine and rehabilitation, due to a shortage of tutors in university hospital centers (CHU). This is all the more damaging as many students aspire to specialize in this discipline which has the particularity of treating a wide range of diseases due to its transversality. Also, he asks if the Government is considering opening private establishments to the training of MPR practitioners to compensate for the deficiencies in the training of practitioners in physical medicine and rehabilitation, in order to compensate for the training gaps observed in university hospital centers, according to a model similar to that of the training of nurses.

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