For the second year running, the Agnes McLaren Association is organizing a medical award worth €4,000! Discover the program for the 2023 award ceremony.
The World University Games are an international university sports competition where high-level student athletes compete. They are organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) every two years.
This season, they will take place in Chengdu, China, bringing together 6,000 high-level student athletes from 120 countries to compete in 18 different sports from July 28 to August 8.
The Faculty is proud to announce that one of its medical students, Romain Didelot, has been selected to compete for the French national athletics team! We met up with him:
Can you tell us about your educational and athletic background?
"I started athletics at the age of 7, always with the same club in Montpellier, and my passion has never left me. Athletics, and then my choice to specialize in the long jump, has been part of my personal life and has given me discipline, a taste for hard work, and the desire to surpass myself. After years of high school marked by several national titles, as soon as I passed the first-year medical school entrance exam in Montpellier, I returned to the Philippidès stadium and, since then, I have been trying my best to juggle my medical studies and high-level sport. This requires daily organizational efforts to balance classes, internships, revision, training, and competitions."
What does this selection mean to you?
"This selection for the World University Games is the reward for a busy but successful year. Academically, I am entering my fifth year of medical school and am therefore pursuing my main goal. In terms of sports, the results have also been positive: French University Indoor Long Jump Champion (Eaubonne, 01/2023) and French University Vice-Champion in the stadium (Salon de Provence, 05/2023), French Senior FFA Indoor Champion (Miramas, 02/2023) and Bronze Medalist at the French Elite FFA Indoor Championships (Clermont-Ferrand, 02/2023)."
Would you like to add anything?
"I am particularly happy and honored by this selection and proud to represent the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier and the University of Montpellier. I am also very proud to represent my city, as I was born in Montpellier and have always lived there. And, by a twist of fate, I will be participating in this competition in Chengdu, one of Montpellier's twin cities!"
This summer, the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association (ATSM) wrote a guide for international students. Available to read via a link at the bottom of this article, this guide covers many essential points about settling in France, as well as lots of useful advice for those embarking on health studies.
Moving to a foreign country is never easy, especially when you don't know what steps to take or what assistance is available. This guide is therefore intended to provide information to help international students get off to a good start at the beginning of the year.
Furthermore, as health studies are particularly demanding, it goes without saying that a good setup makes things easier for anyone embarking on these courses, given that many of our health students in Montpellier have completed part of their school or university education outside France.
The International Student Guide is intended to be comprehensive, but the Vice President in charge of Health, Social Affairs, and Support (VP HSS) at ATSM remains available to answer any questions about the guide via email: vpssa.atsm@gmail.com.
This guide consists of several parts:
- administrative procedures,
- practical life, particularly in Montpellier,
- The first year in good health: testimonials and contact details for international student associations.
The ATSM provides this guide via the following Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QXf8MjVjjReJHWh94jjCszPElRBwk4Pe?usp=sharing
With the aim of enabling PASS and LAS students to prepare as well as possible for their year of health studies, the Pre-Entry Internship (SPR) is a flagship event organized by the tutoring associations of the Montpellier-Nîmes Faculty of Medicine.
