Part Six: Health facilities and services

Before their first assignment, maieutics students must prove that they meet the conditions required by the regulations in force relating to the compulsory immunisation of certain people against certain diseases.

Hospital maieutics students are subject to the internal regulations of the establishment to which they are assigned.

Hospital maieutics students are subject to the disciplinary system applicable to students as defined by the internal regulations of the maieutics training structure. The director of the host hospital may exclude any student whose behaviour is such as to compromise the smooth running of the department.

Hospital students in maieutics receive an annual remuneration, the amount of which is set by order of the ministers responsible for the budget, higher education and health and revalued in line with changes in civil service salaries by order of the minister responsible for health. This remuneration is paid monthly after service has been rendered, with the exception of the period of study abroad provided for in article R. 6153-99….

Hospital students in maieutics are entitled to: 1° Annual leave of thirty working days, during which they receive the remuneration provided for in article R. 6153-105; 2° In the event of illness or infirmity duly certified as having made it impossible for them to carry out their duties, a maximum of one month’s leave, during which they receive their full remuneration, and one month, during which they receive half their…

Hospital maieutics students who complete a placement outside the establishment to which the training structure in which they are enrolled is attached receive a flat-rate transport allowance when the placement is located more than fifteen kilometres from this structure. When the work placement is organised on a full-time basis, this allowance is only payable if the work placement is located more than fifteen kilometres from the student’s home. This allowance…

The work placements mentioned in article R. 6153-99, with the exception of the study period abroad, carried out outside the home establishment of the training structure in which the maieutics student is registered, are organised by agreements. These agreements determine, in particular, their period of application and the conditions under which they may be revised. They are subject to periodic evaluation by the signatory parties.

For the exercise of trade union rights, special leave of absence is granted by the director of the supporting establishment and the director of the maieutics training structure, under the conditions and within the limits set by order of the Minister for Health, to the elected trade union representatives of the maieutics students when they attend trade union meetings.

Subject to the provisions of articles R. 6153-105, R. 6153-107 and R. 6153-109, the procedures for applying this section are specified by a joint order of the ministers responsible for higher education and health.