Medicine branch

Day school

Hospital internship (1st cycle)

Students in their 3rd year of undergraduate studies are welcomed into our departments to learn about clinical and medico-technical care and consultations. They are evaluated throughout their internship by the clinical directors, who also offer them courses and workshops in semiology.

Course objectives :

• Discover how a cancer center works, its missions, specific activities, teams and staff.
• Learn how to deal with patients and understand the clinical examination.
• Summarize the patient's clinical situation.
• Understanding the cancer patient care pathway.

Graduate hospital internship (externship)

Every year, around a hundred medical students choose to do an internship at the Centre François Baclesse as part of their medical studies. The 6- to 10-week internship enables them to discover the full spectrum of oncology patient care: conventional hospitalization, outpatient hospitalization, outpatient consultations, medical-technical examinations and treatments. Their preferences are taken into account during the placement, and a half-day reception is reserved for them.

Course objectives :

• Develop analytical skills to identify the reasons for the care taken
• How to write a targeted entry observation, exit letter or letter to a colleague
• Improve clinical examination skills (breast palpation, abdominal palpation, ENT examination, pelvic touching, etc.)
• Improve interpersonal skills and develop empathic listening skills
• Understand the interpretation of complementary examinations in oncology, in particular scans, MRIs and ultrasounds.

EXTERNAT : PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Medical referent: Pr Florence JOLY, and by delegation the heads of clinics.
- You are summoned for the first day of your internship: report at 8:30 am to the Teaching Department (located on the garden level).
- Internship hours: 8:45 am - 1 pm (part-time) or 8:45 am - 5 pm (full-time), except in the operating theatre.

EXTERNAT: Contact person :

Boarding

The Centre François Baclesse offers 22 accredited medical and surgical services, covering 25 specialties.

Each semester, the Center welcomes around 28 medical interns, 6 to 8 surgical interns, 2 biology interns and 2 to 3 pharmacy interns.
Interns take part in on-call duty or on-call duty (surgeons).

Pedagogical objectives

They are set by the department manager with the intern when he/she is assigned to a department. They are graded throughout the six-month internship, so as to give the intern increasing autonomy according to the knowledge and skills he or she has acquired and the length of time he or she has been with the company. The intern's achievements are periodically assessed and validated by his or her training supervisor and the doctor in charge of the department.

The Center takes particular care to ensure that these pedagogical principles are constantly reconciled with the quality and safety due to every patient under its care.

Finally, the Center is developing a strong research activity, which it wishes to pass on to its interns. As far as possible, they are involved in the clinical research protocols in progress in the department, and can take part in French and international communications and congresses.

Oncology training

Over the course of the semester, interns will learn about oncology through :

• Innovative technical facilities (radiotherapy, medical imaging, operating theatres).
• Innovative treatments (rapid pathways, anticipation of chemotherapy, personalized medicine based on biological profiles and care pathways, etc.).
• A clinical research unit to follow patients in clinical trials, and an early-phase unit to participate in the development of new molecules in an expert department.

The intern participates in the weekly meetings of the Multidisciplinary Consultation Units. He or she presents cases requiring discussion, preparing, if necessary, bibliography and literature data.

Teaching conditions

On arrival, interns benefit from an induction seminar designed to get them up and running quickly. Regular daytime and evening courses are organized, as well as bibliography meetings and clinical case studies on different tumor locations. Interns are systematically invited to all medical events organized by the Centre François Baclesse or other organizations. They also benefit from the services and documentary resources of the medical library.

INTERNSHIP: PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- You are summoned for the first day of your semester: arrive at 8:30 a.m. at the Teaching Department (located on the garden level) for the welcome seminar.

INTERNAT : Contact person :

DES in oncology

Interns who have chosen the "Oncology" specialty at the end of their sixth year of medical studies must complete at least half of their internships at the Centre François Baclesse to validate their studies.

The Diplôme d'Etudes Spécialisées en Oncologie is a 3rd cycle medical diploma which takes five years to complete, and comprises 2 early options: medical oncology and radiotherapeutic oncology.
Pr Florence JOLY, medical oncologist, and Pr Juliette THARIAT, radiotherapeutic oncologist, are the co-coordinators of this university course. Together with the Local Commission, they monitor students throughout their studies.

• Approval of services for interns, 3rd cycle training in medicine, biology and pharmacy

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- University coordinators:
Pr Florence JOLY, medical oncology f.joly@baclesse.unicancer.fr
Pr Juliette THARIAT, radiotherapeutic oncology j.thariat@baclesse.unicancer.fr
- Contacts:
Student follow-up: Lucile DEBONNAIRE, tel 02 31 45 50 94 l.debonnaire@baclesse.unicancer.fr
University registrations: Valérie CURTO, post-graduate schooling, medecine.des.autrespc@unicaen.fr Bureau PS4-083, tel 02 31 56 82 03

FST Cancerology: medical treatments for cancer, adult oncology declination

The curriculum for this Specific Transversal Training in Adult Oncology can be completed in full or in part at the Centre François Baclesse.

It consists of a 6-month internship in a department validating radiotherapy and a 6-month internship validating medical oncology. For medical oncology, the Center offers these interns a coupled internship, enabling them to experience both conventional and outpatient hospitalization.

• Approval of services for 3rd cycle medical, biological and pharmaceutical interns

DES of origin of interns eligible to apply:
Maxillo-facial surgery, dermatology and venereology, endocrinology diabetology nutrition, medical gynecology, obstetric gynecology, hematology, hepato-gastro-enterology, neurosurgery, neurology, ENT and cervico-facial surgery, pneumology, rheumatology, urology.

Application procedure:
Send by May 15 of the current year to Pr Joly, with a copy to Lucile Débonnaire,
- A letter of recommendation from the coordinator of your original DES
- A letter of motivation and detailed career plan, including the "planned" internships provided for in the curriculum.
- A CV with photo
Present your project to the committee using a 15-minute slide show.
At the end of the auditions, the FST committee ranks the candidates, taking into account the candidate's profile, training, professional project and the possibility of pursuing this option.
Candidates selected are those ranked within the number of places determined by decree.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- FST coordinator: Pr Florence JOLY, medical oncology f.joly@baclesse.unicancer.fr
- Contacts:
Student follow-up : Lucile DEBONNAIRE, tel 02 31 45 50 94 l.debonnaire@baclesse.unicancer.fr
University enrolments: Valérie CURT0, 3rd cycle schooling, medecine.des.autrespc@unicaen.fr Office PS4-083, tel 02 31 56 82 03

FST Pediatric Oncology

The radiotherapy-proton therapy department of the Centre François Baclesse is validating for the curriculum of this Specific Transversal Training in pediatric oncology.

DES of origin of interns eligible to apply:
Hematology, oncology, pediatrics.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- FST coordinator: Pr Damien BODET, bodet-d@chu-caen.fr
- Contact:
University enrolments: Valérie CUROT, 3ème cycle schooling, medecine.des.autrespc@unicaen.fr Office PS4-083, tel 02 31 56 82 03

Foreign doctors: DFMSA/DFMS

Two positions are open each year at the Centre François Baclesse.

One in medical oncology, the other in radiation oncology, to enable foreign doctors to validate their training in oncology as part of a Diplôme de Formation Médicale Spécialisée (DFMS) or a Diplôme de Formation Médicale Spécialisée Approfondie (DFMS).

Applications must be submitted on the Université de Strasbourg website before January 15 of each year, for an internship in November.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Contact persons:
University registration: Etienne GAUTIE, 3rd cycle schooling, medecine.3emecycle@unicaen.fr, tel 02 31 56 82 17
Medical referent: Pr Florence JOLY
Reception at the Centre François Baclesse: Lucile DEBONNAIRE, tel 02 31 45 50 94 l.debonnaire@baclesse.unicancer.fr
University registration: Valérie CURTO, 3rd cycle schooling, medecine.des.autrespc@unicaen.fr Bureau PS4-083, tel 02 31 56 82 03

Double degree in Medicine and Science (MD-PhD)

As part of its early and flexible research training program, the Center welcomes medical students to give them the opportunity to carry out research in parallel with their basic training, so that they can later combine research with their clinical practice.

This training is part of national programs for early research training (Inserm School) and regional programs run by the universities of Caen and Rouen.

For medical students, research training opens the door to careers in research, university and hospital teaching (University Professor PU, University Professor-Practitioner PU-PH, University Senior Lecturer MCU and University Senior Lecturer-Practitioner MCU-PH).