« I am ready to go everywhere, as long as I am in my country » – Liberation

For a long time, the plan of Blair Dunlop, a 37-year-old Franco-British, was all traced: finishing his studies as a general practitioner in Brighton, then settle in France, where part of his family and that of his French spouse lives. There, the couple has a house in the Drôme and will be able to raise their two children there. At the end of 2020, everything clarified: diploma obtained in September, linguistic examination validated in the process, request for registration with the order of doctors sent in December – essential sesame to exercise medicine. Except that Brexit has been there. And with him, the end of simplified procedures to work in the European Union. Today, Blair still cannot practice in France.

He is far from the only one. About fifty medicines or medical students who started their long training in the United Kingdom before leaving the EU came together to make their difficulties heard. “We have gone or take selective exams, our diploma fulfilled European standards. He hasn’t changed since ”, Insists Blair Dunlop, also president of the association of Franco-British doctors. They argue that they could not know that their diploma would not be recognized in the EU when they started their long studies (more than ten years). The situation may even seem paradoxical, while politicians and local actors tear their hair to