Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»1551Научная статьяCOMPETITIVE ADMISSION SYSTEM AND TRAJECTORIES OF HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION IN FRANCEErshovA. Eershov-ae@rudn.ruSorokinaT. Ssorokina-ts@rudn.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation171220213667308042022Copyright © 2021,2021The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many problems and outlined new challenges in the field of medical education, including improving the quality of student admission in medical universities and the formation of optimal trajectories of medical education. The paper analyzes the peculiarities of reforms in the field of secondary and higher education in France. On the example of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montpellier the following aspects were analyzed: the competitive selection of medical students after the successful completion of the first course based on the results of examinations and the ratings of students; the timing and learning trajectories in the main medical specialties: General Medicine (Médecine), Pharmacy (Pharmacie), Dentistry (Odontologie), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maïeutique) during three training cycles, as well as in narrow specializations. A comparative analysis of the French and Russian traditions in the field of higher medical education was carried out.история медицинывысшее медицинское образованиереформа образования1.Закирьянова А.Х. Модернизация системы профессиональной подготовки будущих врачей во Франции: образовательные траектории / А.Х. Закирьянова // Вестник ЮУрГУ. Серия «Образование. Педагогические науки». - 2021. - Том 13. - № 2. - С. 96-106.2.Ткач Г.Ф. От среднего образования к высшему: современный опыт оптимизации набора студентов во Франции / Г.Ф. Ткач // Ежегодник российского образовательного законодательства. - 2018. - Том 13. - С. 154-171.3.Уиттакер Э. Франция (Разговор о культуре) / Э. Уиттакер. - М.: РИПОЛ классик, 2013. - 304 с.4.Стрельцова Я.Р. Высшая школа во Франции: тенденции и перспективы / Я.Р. Стрельцова // Франция на пороге перемен: экономика и политика в начале в начале XXI века. - М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2016. - С. 38-46.5.Зудгоф К. Медицина Средних веков и Эпохи Возрождения / К. Зудгоф. - М.: Вузовская книга, 1999. - 160 с.6.Сорокина Т.С. История медицины: в 2 т. - Т. 1: учебник для студ. учреждений высш. мед. образования / Т.С. Сорокина. - 14-е изд., испр. и доп. - М.: Издательский центр «Академия». - 2021. - 288 с.7.Zakiryanova A.Kh. Modernization of the system of professional training of future doctors in France: Educational trajectories. Vestnic YuUrGU. Seriya “Obrazovanie. Pedagogicheskie nauki” [Bulletin of the South UralStates University. Ser. Education. Educational Sciences], 2021, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 96-106 (in Russian).8.Tkach G.F. From Middle education to Higher education: modern experience of optimization of student selection in France. Ezhegodnic rossiyskogo obrazovatelnogo zakonodatelstva [Annual of the Russian Educational legislation], 2018, vol. 13, pp. 154-171 (in Russian).9.Wittaker E. Frantsiya (Razgovor o culture) [France (Talk on Culture)]. Moscow, RIPOL klassik, 2013. 304 p. (in Russian).10.Streltsova Ya.R. Higher school in France: tendencies and perspectives. Frantsiya na poroge peremen: economica i politica v nachale XXI veka [France on the threshold of changes: economics and policy at the beginning of the XXI century]. Moscow, IMEMO RAN, 2016, pp. 38-46 (in Russian).11.Sudhoff К. Meditsina Srednikh vekov i Epokhi Vozrozhdeniya [Medicine of Middle ages and Renaissance]. Moscow, University Science, 1999. 160 p. (in Russian).12.Sorokina T.S. Istoriya meditsiny: v 2 t. 14-е izd. [History of Medicine: in 2 vol. 14th edition]. Moscow, Academy, 2021, vol. 1. 288 p. (in Russian).