Service sanitaire des étudiants en santé : ancrer l'éducation pour la santé dans le cursus des étudiants.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Established in France since 2018, the Student Health Service aims to train students to become actors in health education. METHODS AND RESULTS: A teaching system lasting the equivalent of six weeks full-time has been set up in the third year of medical school in Rennes. The aim is for students to develop the skills needed to carry out interventions based on a project approach, with a variety of audiences, on priority public health themes.New pedagogical approaches have been developed to integrate learning about health promotion and health education into the medical curriculum. Innovations have been implemented work on the educational posture, tutoring of third-year students by medical interns, a forum for simulation of concrete actions under the supervision of a dual thematic and population-based expertise. Beyond the acquisition of knowledge, the training aims to encourage a reflective approach and is based on peer education.The 240 students of the faculty prepare their project in trinomials throughout the academic year. Their activities take place over ten half-days in more than a hundred establishments in the faculty subdivision and enable them to work with approximately 10,000 people per year. DISCUSSION: Education and health promotion now occupies a central place in the training of third-year students, an essential condition for the sustainable acquisition of this field of expertise by future health professionals.