Crise COVID-19 : les étudiants en médecine en renfort de la régulation médicale

The COVID-19 epidemic required reinforcement of technical resources and personnel within the framework of medical regulation activities but also for EMS and MICU interventions. This reinforcement has been adapted to the evolution of the activity. In the SAMU of Paris, the activity imposed the doubling of medical regulation work posts from the second week of March in order to respond to both the usual calls but also to the demand related to COVID. Only the 2nd cycle medical students were therefore integrated into this organization, they benefited on their arrival from a training adapted to their level of study and to the functions to be performed within the medical regulation and also throughout their activity of supervision by a senior doctor of Emergency physician or GP of the EMS system. This activity was therefore secured by senior doctors as in any hospital internship. This organization contributed, particularly in Paris, to the management of the surge of EMS calls. This reinforcement was then maintained, both in the context of the crisis and in daily activity in the deployment of the Access to Care Service.