An intern may benefit from therapeutic part-time work enabling him to gradually resume his duties if his state of health improves, after a favourable opinion from the medical committee, under the following conditions:
1° An intern may be authorised to work part-time on a therapeutic basis :
a) After long-term sick leave or long-term leave of absence, for a period of three months renewable up to a maximum of one year per illness for which long-term sick leave or long-term leave of absence was granted;
b) After leave for an accident in the line of duty or a disease contracted in the line of duty, for a maximum period of six months, renewable once;
2° Therapeutic part-time work may be granted :
a) Either because resuming part-time work is recognised as being likely to improve the state of health of the person concerned;
b) or because the person concerned must undergo re-education or readaptation to his duties compatible with his state of health;
3° Residents authorised to work part-time for therapeutic reasons receive all the fixed emoluments provided for in article R. 6153-10, the allowance provided for in 3° of article D. 6153-10-1 and, where applicable, the compensation for benefits in kind provided for in the same article.
For the six-month period during which the intern benefits from therapeutic part-time work to be validated, the duration of actual service must not be less than four months full-time.
An intern benefiting from therapeutic part-time work may, at his request, be exempted from performing on-call duty, after receiving the opinion of the occupational physician.