“The story of health academy it’s the story of a meeting between a startuper and a doctor. A young man who did ESSEC, who comes from finance and me, Vincent Mallet, who is a hepatologist at the Cochin hospital, teacher-researcher at the Paris Center medical school.
When I met Stanislas De Zutter, 3 years ago, he was setting up his company. It was the beginnings. He approached me, through an external, one of my students. Stanislas wanted me to help him create training, but at the time, in a very top-down format, courses, a bit filmed, a bit like at university. The model was not refined.
Finally a positive effect of the Covid
But the Covid has changed everything. In Cochin, we were on the front line, I had transformed my service into a Covid unit, and Stanislas was confined to Lyon. We had only seen each other two or three times over a kebab. And he called me back to tell me: “I don’t know what to do if I can help, I’m available. »
At the time of this first wave, the acute problem was to transmit information. Everyone was going in all directions, without any cohesion. Everyone said their own. It was dreadful. Information had to be gleaned.
And thinking of general practitioners, who no longer knew where to turn, to know what to say, what to do with their patients, I thought of creating a radio station: calling all my colleagues in Cochin, from all specialties and do interviews.
First stop: Radio Cochin
Stanislas created a web radio, we got organized with the university, because this lack of information was a global problem. Everyone was in shock, everyone was flabbergasted. And together we launched Radio Cochin.
And it worked very well. Very quickly I had carried out more than 60 interviews, and we were followed by more than 50,000 general practitioners. The format was a bit special, because the specialists I called were friends, we were each in our offices, I asked them to tell me about the daily life in their unit, because we were all impacted. And then we continued by talking about a clinical case, we always presented very concrete cases. I put myself in the place of a general practitioner each time, who asked questions of a specialist, a professor, and we exchanged in a very direct way.
We received a lot of emails from GPs, a lot of thanks, and I really felt that we had done a service. And that got us thinking. We said to ourselves, we are going to do the same thing to change the FMC models which are a bit outdated.
From radio…to FMC
In a training, in general we unroll slides, people watch, listen with a distracted ear, and then they validate the UV. That’s what college students do. The courses that we see in CME are of the same ilk.
I said to myself : “Maybe we can create quality CPD. Doctors are obliged to train, we can do interviews with very high-level listeners and discuss, a bit like in an Arte documentary or a Netflix report, that it is pleasant to watch. »
And from there, Stanislas set up the startup Santé Académie, found funding, hired someone from Netflix, and we conducted the first interviews. We worked on the formatting, and it looked good. To differentiate ourselves from other FMC sites, we bet on a pro side, a pro realization.
My vision is a general practitioner returning from her office. He sits on his couch. He takes his tablet. He looks at PU-PH or experts in their field, very pleasant interviews. He’s not viewing slides in a classroom, deep in who knows where, with someone reading PDFs. It’s not the same experience. And with the CPF model, it’s fully funded, with the DPC.
Santé Académie employs 40 people
And it works, because the company that Stanislas created in 2020 now employs around forty people.
My role is to be the scientific director, I try to set up one training course per month. It’s me who chooses the subjects, immunity, low back pain, ECG. Then I recruit experts, mainly from my network of teachers. They are paid. The difficulty, as they are all overwhelmed, is that they find the time. Then I help with the preparation, I brief them so that they don’t make any slides, so that they think about several concrete situations, specific clinical cases.
Then we shoot, in a magnificent location, the library of the Deutsch Foundation in Paris. There is a good production: there is a person to welcome the participants, at least two cameramen, a sound recordist, a director, IT specialists, plus the marketing teams. All the teams are young, it’s nice!
I who am in education, who am solicited everywhere in France, abroad, I am delighted with this new way of teaching, of transmitting in this way. It’s a new adventure. I love my job, I like stories that start from scratch and take flight, whether it’s students, scientific questions… I don’t have any entrepreneurial experience, but starting from scratch and moving forward, that’s is what I like in life. »
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Some figures on Health Academy: Choice of training by general practitioners (each training lasts several hours):
98% of training started was completed 53% of training is followed on smartphone 95% on DPC financing (the rest on personal financing) |
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