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Study Day: Mid-Level Healthcare Professions

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Montpellier–Nîmes School of Medicine, CEPEL

Study Day: Mid-Level Healthcare Professions

March 21, 2024, Montpellier

Event coordinated by Élodie Couren (CEPEL Ph.D. candidate) and Jérémy Rollin (CEPEL Assistant Professor, affiliated with Laboratoire Triangle)

In person at the historic building of the Faculty of Medicine, 2 rue de l’École de Médecine, 34090 Montpellier

To register: Elodie Couren and Jeremy Rollin

Schedule for the day:

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Welcome reception for participants at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (BH, School of Medicine)

Morning: Presentation of two research projects

  • 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Cécile Fournier – Sociologist, public health physician, research director at IRDES: Negotiating one’s role with general practitioners in primary care: differing degrees of autonomy for self-employed advanced practice nurses and salaried ASALEE nurses.
  • 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Marianne Woollven – Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clermont-Auvergne University and member of LESCORES: Speech-Language Pathology: The Process of Legitimizing a Female-Dominated Professional Group.

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Lunch break

Afternoon: Presentation of three research projects

  • 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Mathieu Azcué – Midwife and instructor, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, and sociologist, Max Weber Center, Lyon: Gendered social movements in intermediate healthcare professions through the lens of gender and biomedicine.
  • 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Diane Grober-Traviesas – Professor in the Department of Education and Training Sciences, Lille: The Shift Toward University-Based and Professionalized Nursing Education in France: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Prospects for Educators in 2024.

4:00–4:15 p.m.: break

  • 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Lucie Kraepiel – Ph.D. candidate in sociology, Center for the Sociology of Organizations (
    Sciences Po / CNRS) and Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Evaluation of Public Policies: Designing and Organizing Outpatient Care for Cardiovascular Diseases: Professional and Organizational Challenges.
  • 5:00–5:30 p.m.: Closing remarks by Élodie Couren and Jérémy Rollin, followed by a group discussion

Please note that this Study Day will be followed by a “Health and Society Forum” held at the School of Medicine (historic building) starting at 6:30 p.m., moderated by Cécile Fournier and Marianne Woollven, focusing on issues of autonomy and the division of labor in healthcare, which will open the discussion to a broad audience.