Chapter I: General conditions of practice

The tests to verify the knowledge referred to in I of article L. 4111-2, which are written and anonymous, comprise : 1° A test of fundamental knowledge ; 2° A test of practical knowledge. The organisational procedures for the knowledge verification tests are set by order of the Minister for Health.

For each session, an order by the Minister for Health determines the professions and, where applicable, the specialties for which the tests are organised, the number of places available and the list of host structures offered for the skills consolidation courses mentioned in I of article L. 41112. The skills consolidation courses may be run in public, private non-profit-making or private health establishments as referred to in article L. 6111-1…

For each of the medical professions, a national jury is responsible for drawing up the subjects and marking the tests.

For the professions of doctor and dental surgeon, the jury, constituted by drawing lots, is composed of : 1° Members chosen from the sections or sub-sections of the National Universities Council governed by decree no. 87-31 of 20 January 1987 corresponding to the discipline or speciality concerned: a) For medicine, in all specialties except general medicine: from among the tenured teaching and hospital staff governed by decree no. 2021-1645 of…

For the profession of midwife, the jury, constituted by drawing lots, is composed of : 1° Members of the teaching and hospital staff governed by decree no. 2021-1645 of 13 December 2021 relating to the teaching and hospital staff of university hospitals, chosen in the field of gynaecology and obstetrics; 2° Tenured teaching and hospital staff governed by the aforementioned decree of 13 December 2021, chosen in the field of…

For each profession and, where applicable, each speciality, the selection board will draw up a list of successful candidates in order of merit, within the limit of the maximum number of people who may be admitted to the knowledge verification tests. Ties are broken by the mark obtained in the first test. Candidates who obtain a mark of 6 out of 20 or less in any of the tests cannot…

The skills consolidation course provided for in I of article L. 4111-2 is completed on a full-time basis, in a host structure listed in the order referred to in article R. 4111-1-1, in the profession and, where applicable, in the speciality for which the candidates are applying for authorisation to practise. The duration of this course is two years for applicants to the profession of doctor and one year for…

I. – Persons authorised to pursue a skills consolidation programme may, at their request, obtain a postponement of their assignment for up to eighteen months if, at the time when the Minister responsible for health takes the assignment decisions mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of article R. 4111-6 : – they are pregnant ; – they cannot be assigned for health reasons certified by an approved doctor; or – or…