At the Caen University Hospital, the emergency department is forced to do without interns due to a lack of doctors to supervise them.

The news came as a shock. Starting Monday, November 3rd, the emergency department of the Caen University Hospital (CHU) will no longer have any medical interns (after their sixth year of studies), "junior doctors" (in their final year), or externs (fourth and fifth years). In other words, all these young doctors in training, who are essential to maintaining healthcare services at a time when the hospital is suffering from a medical shortage, will be eliminated.

The decision appears exceptional in a university hospital emergency department: the medical school has suspended the internship accreditation for six months due to staffing difficulties. The hospital administration announced this to the staff unions on Monday, October 27. This will affect the 14 positions previously filled by general medicine residents, as had been communicated since September, but also the 16 positions for so-called "specialty" residents—that is, in emergency medicine or geriatrics—whose fate had not yet been decided. These latter residents were relocated at the last minute to other hospitals in the region. This has been confirmed by the faculty. In total, including external candidates, the department will therefore have about fifty fewer young professionals.

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