Overview
- Intern placements at the CHU de Caen emergency department are suspended from early November 2025 to May 2026, removing about 30 interns, according to ARS Normandie.
- Health Minister Stéphanie Rist has mobilized the national réserve sanitaire and promised reinforcements to enable a return of interns within six months.
- The hospital says the emergency service remains open 24/7 and is bringing in doctors from other CHU departments and external hospitals to maintain operations.
- Faculty dean Paul-Ursmar Milliez says reinstating accreditation will require a convincing new pedagogical plan and the hiring of roughly 15 senior doctors to meet supervision requirements.
- Union representatives report degraded patient reception and a steep drop in senior staff numbers, while parallel staffing constraints have prompted temporary restrictions at the Toulouse CHU.