FRAOverview
Three-year DIU for non-psychiatrist physicians working full-time in public psychiatry (general assistants, attached physicians, PAC), with 200 h of teaching and at least six semesters of concurrent placements in psychiatry (≥1 child & adolescent, ≥2 adult, ≥1 university or approved department); prepares for the national hospital-practitioner competition in psychiatry.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 3 years (200 h teaching + 6 semesters of placements)
- Start
- November
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Inter-university diploma (CNUP-designed, Arrêté of 24 May 2000)
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Non-psychiatrist physicians working full-time in a public psychiatry service as general assistant, attached physician or PAC, with a 3-year contract in an Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes hospital
- International applicants
- Francophone foreign doctors need French practice equivalence and a visa covering the full course before applying
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Employment in a French public psychiatry service required
How to apply
- Deadline
- 30 September
- Application method
- Email motivation letter, CV, medical diploma and employment contract to fcsante-mixte@univ-st-etienne.fr
Funding
- Funding
- Fee-paying: €1,000 per year (continuing education); €660/€470 initial training