Following the national selection procedure, medical interns are assigned by order of the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion, published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française. Medical interns are assigned to a subdivision and a discipline. Dental interns are assigned to an interregion, a speciality and a university hospital centre. Pharmacy interns are assigned to an interregion, a speciality and a university hospital centre.
Half-yearly assignments are decided by the director general of the regional health agency.
Residents are attached administratively by decision of the director general of the regional health agency to a university hospital centre, in accordance with the procedures laid down by an order of the ministers responsible for higher education and health.
Interns are appointed by the director general of the university hospital centre to which they are administratively attached.