[Physicians of the national education system: Stakes and perspectives for a new profession]. / Médecins de l'éducation nationale: enjeux et perspectives pour un nouveau métier.

After five years of experience in the domain of training doctors of the national education system, the authors note the uneasy position of a profession started in the napoleonic era, created in the post-war context and commissioned in 1991 to "promote the health" of all the students preparing for their baccalaureate degrees. The hypothesis consists of a double origin: a crisis concerning professional identity (doctors of care, prevention, public health) reinforced by a lack of appreciation by the silent partners of the accompaniment necessary for all major changes and for mechanisms of resistance. To remedy this, the authors propose a better definition of professional objectives and priorities to attain, the affirmation of the (central?) position of doctors of the national education system among education and health professionals for youth, and a policy of training at two levels, specialised and inter-professional.

[Elementary school health and the national education physician-teacher partnership: apropos of 2 surveys conducted by national education physicians in training]. / Santé à l'école primaire et partenariat médecin de l'éducation nationale-enseignant: à propos de deux enquêtes réalisées par des médecins de l'éducation nationale en formation.

This article presents the methods and results of two surveys aiming to contribute to the development of partnerships between doctors and teachers in primary school. The first study, carried out with a sample of elementary school teachers, shows the interest they have in health promotion at school, their desire to see national education doctors become involved in health education, and their misunderstanding of the role of national education doctors and nurses, especially in training and participation in school projects. The second study, carried out among a sample of national education doctors, shows their felt sense of "friction" between the individual medical approach within which they were trained and for which they are known and solicited, and the public health approach that they would like to develop. To ameliorate the partnership, the inspector of national education, as the responsible party for educational policies within his district, is the necessary "link" between doctors, school directors and teachers.