When a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife has been convicted by a criminal court of any offence other than a felony or misdemeanour against the Nation, the State or public peace, the first instance disciplinary chamber of the ordre may, if appropriate, impose one of the penalties provided for in article L. 4124-6 on him, under the conditions of articles L. 4126-1 and L. 4126-2. In order to ensure that…
A code of ethics, specific to each of the professions of doctor, dental surgeon and midwife, prepared by the national council of the order concerned, is issued in the form of a decree by the Conseil d’Etat.
The tasks of the primary care general practitioner include the following: 1° Contribute to ambulatory healthcare provision, by ensuring the prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of illnesses for their patients, as well as health education. This mission may be carried out in health or medico-social establishments; 2° Directing patients, according to their needs, within the healthcare system and the medico-social sector; 3° Ensuring the necessary coordination of care for…
The tasks of the primary care or secondary care medical specialist include the following: 1° Completing patient care by carrying out an expert diagnostic and therapeutic analysis, implementing appropriate treatment and monitoring patients, in accordance with the procedures specific to the skills of each discipline; 2° Contributing to prevention and health education; 3° Participating in the public service mission of permanent care; 4° Contributing to the reception and training of…
The evidence of formal qualifications required in application of 1° of article L. 4111-1 is, for the practice of the profession of doctor : 1° Either the French State diploma of doctor of medicine ; When this diploma has been obtained under the conditions defined in article L. 632-4 of the Education Code, it is supplemented by the document mentioned in the second paragraph of the said article. 2° Or,…
The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, following the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of doctor, in the speciality concerned, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who hold basic and specialist training qualifications issued…
Persons meeting the following conditions may be authorised to practise medicine as a replacement for a doctor: 1° have completed and validated the entire second cycle of medical studies in France or hold a qualification certifying equivalent basic medical training, issued by a Member State of the European Union or a party to the agreement on the European Economic Area ; 2° have completed a number of semesters in the…
Persons fulfilling the conditions defined in 1° and 2° of article L. 4131-2 may be authorised to practise medicine as an assistant to a doctor: 1° In areas characterised by insufficient healthcare provision or by difficulties in access to healthcare, as determined by order of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency pursuant to 1° of article L. 1434-4; 2° In the event of a seasonal or exceptional influx…
The provisions of Chapters I of Titles I and III of this Book are without prejudice to the transitional provisions contained in Order no. 45-1748 of 6 August 1945 relating to the practice of medicine by foreign doctors.
By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 4111-1, persons of French or foreign nationality who do not meet the conditions defined by this article may, with a view to carrying out teaching and research duties, be individually authorised by the Minister for Health to practise medicine temporarily either in a university hospital centre, or in a health establishment or in an army hospital that has entered into…
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