Head for the Samu de Toulouse, then the medical university. High school students from the health option of the Saint-Céré high school were received there on Wednesday. An instructive and motivating immersion that erased some legitimate fears and confirmed their vocation. Report.
The high school students of Saint-Céré, who felt a vocation dawn in them for the health professions, lived Wednesday in Toulouse an immersion that they are not about to forget at the heart of the activity of the Samu then at the University of Medicine where they were welcomed by Professor Odile Rauzy, Director of the Department of Medicine, Maieutics and Paramedic of the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse.
These students, enrolled in the first and final option Health (Video) at Jean-Lurçat high school, thus benefit from the health policy developed at the territorial level. A commitment supported by the region and the elected officials of the Cauvaldor community of communes who have enabled the opening of this teaching in the Lot.
Saint-Céré high school students live from the Toulouse Samu call center.
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“Increase the chances of success for high school students in our area”
Fabienne Krupka, coordinator of the local health contract and Thierry Chartroux, vice-president of Cauvaldor, who accompanied the high school students alongside their teacher David Auffray and the headmaster Rémi Poumeyrol, insisted on the need “to increase the chances of success of the high school students from our territory who wish to embark on medical studies. In their course, students entering 1st general, can follow 3 hours of lessons per week in physics-chemistry, SVT (Life and Earth Sciences) and methodology and attend interventions by health professionals, students . They also participate in visits like this one. »
Learning first aid gestures in the premises of the Samu in Toulouse.
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The excitement in the silence
Upon their arrival at the Toulouse Samu, the high school students discovered the large building containing several action and intervention units, before taking part in a first aid training workshop.
First step in the heart of the emergency call control center where a certain effervescence reigns in silence. Each operator is in conversation with a person reporting distress, pain, etc.
“You have to be attentive, very attentive and rigorous. This service receives nearly 2,000 calls a day, sometimes more. We record approximately 650,000 calls per year. The Samu teams are then sent to the patients with the appropriate equipment according to the identified needs,” explains Professor Vincent Bounes, head of Samu 31, vice-president of the Occitanie Region and a leading specialist in so-called “disaster” medicine. »
Heavy equipment for interventions in dangerous environments
Vincent Bounes presented this very special role to the students by opening the doors to what he called “Ali Baba’s cave in our intervention service. » A vast room where all the equipment immediately operational in all the theaters of intervention is stored from floor to ceiling.
There, three students put on the heavy clothing (helmet and protective vest) intended for missions in hostile and high-risk environments. Kelynne Hiron was already in her element. “I would like to become a nurse in the army by first going through training at the IFSI (Nursing Training Institute). »
Octavien, Kelynne and Antonin have worn the work and protective clothing of the Samu teams when they work on high-risk sites.
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Under his heavy helmet, Antonin Musquar found this equipment “impressive” before adding: “I would like to be a general practitioner in my department: the Lot. “That’s pretty good. This is one of the purposes of the Health option.
Octavien Cabié is also delighted: “I discovered the Samu. From the outside, you would not imagine that there is such activity there. Everything is well structured. It’s an area that interests me, but the health sector is very broad. I’m still waiting to see and learn to make my career choice,” he says wisely. On Wednesday, it was this feeling that predominated in each high school student: to discover before choosing.
Boarding the Samu helicopter which took off from the roof of the building.
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Questions about the density of personal work and leisure during studies
The afternoon of this very studious Wednesday was devoted, for more than two hours, to a presentation of the long, exciting and very demanding course of medical studies. The students were welcomed at the Toulouse medical school in the prestigious room where doctors take their Hippocratic oath.
The high school students of Saint-Céré absolutely wanted to know more about the personal investment they were going to have to devote knowing that it is a long university marathon that will lead them to the culmination of their dream. Worried, several students asked in turn “how to organize revisions, personal work outside of lectures? Did it require many hours of work? How were the lessons going? Do we still have free time for sport and leisure? “.
“Medicine is first of all to understand the patient”
Odile Rauzy, the director of the department of medicine, maieutics and paramedical, reassured the people of Lot by explaining to them that “everyone found his method and adopted his own approach. It is necessary to privilege the taking of notes, but it is also possible to record the courses using a dictaphone. Videos also support the lessons. Others will prefer to immerse themselves in books. Medicine is first and foremost about understanding the patient. We offer sessions where pathologies are simulated by actors. This helps prepare students for patient reactions in all circumstances, all eventualities. »
Gauthier Dransart, a second-year medical student, announced the color to high school students. “We always find time for relaxation and leisure, but you have to know and be able to devote around 8 hours a day to lessons. This between lessons in amphitheater and personal work at home. »
“Our high school students needed to be reassured”
David Auffray, the SVT teacher gives his opinion at the end of this day rich in lessons: “It’s reassuring for our students. They know better where they are going now. The discovery of jobs in the emergency department seems to have given rise to desires. We still have other avenues to explore. »
For the headmaster Rémi Poumeyrol: “These days are designed to maintain and strengthen students’ motivation and open them up to professionals capable of transmitting their experience and their passion. Our high school students needed to be reassured. »
Principal Rémi Poumeyrol is also experimenting with a highly protective suit.
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The Health option of the Jean-Lurçat Saint-Céré high school was cited as an example by the president of the Region Carole Delga at the Bagatelle high school in Saint-Gaudens where she is preparing the opening of the same course.
Medicine: “Demonized studies and an attainable dream”
The final word and the summary go to Octavien Cabié, a diligent and involved high school student: “This course is not as linear as I thought. One can go through various paths depending on one’s own personality. We learned that we could practice a sport and that we weren’t going to be at home all the time with our noses in the books. Gauthier, who did a degree in psychology, shows us that we can then succeed in medicine. This day demonized the image I had of studying medicine and proved to me that it is a dream that can be achieved. With a little personal and collective motivation, we can do it,” he concludes. Octavian has it all figured out. He is on the right track. That of success.
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