Studenţii vor mărşălui astăzi prin oraş
Sute de studenţi de la universităţile ieşene vor participa astăzi la „Parada Organizaţiilor Studenţeşti”, eveniment care are loc anual în cadrul Festivalului studenţesc „FEstudIS”.
Manifestările din cadrul acestui festival au loc în perioada 8-12 mai, iar studenţii celor cinci universităţi de stat vor pleca simultan din Copou şi Tudor Vladimirescu.
Parada Organizaţiilor Studenţeşti va începe de la ora 17.30, când studenţii din Tudor Vladimirescu se vor întâlni în parcarea Facultăţii de Inginerie Chimică şi Protecţia Mediuliu, iar cei din Copou se vor întâlni în faţa corpului A al Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi.
La 18.30 se va pleca din Tudor Vladimirescu pe traseul bl. Tudor Vladimirescu - Str. Elena Doamna - Str. Anastasie Panu – Piaţa Palat, iar studenţii din Copou vor urma traseul bl. Carol I – Piaţa Mihai Eminescu - Str. Gavriil Musicescu - Str. Arcu - Blvd. Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt – Piaţa Palat.
La ora 19.30, după discursurile reprezentanţilor universităţilor ieşene, cele două grupuri vor pleca din Piaţa Palat pe traseul Blvd. Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt - Str. Arcu - Str. Gavriil Musicescu - Casa de Cultură a Studenţilor din Iaşi, unde, în intervalul 20.00 – 21.30, va avea loc evenimentul de deschidere a festivalului.
Joi, de la ora 18.00, studenţii sunt aşteptaţi în parcarea Casei de Cultură a Studenţilor CCS Iaşi, la evenimentul „Iaşul pe biciclete”, urmând ca cei prezenţi să străbată străzile oraşului pe traseul Parcul Voievozilor (palatul Copiilor), Bulevardul Carol 1, Aleeea Mihail Sadoveanu, Strada Aroma Viilor, Stardela Dealul Zorilor, Fundac Viticultori, Strada Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi, Aleea Iancu Flondor, Aleea Păcurari, Strada Cazărmilor, Strada Toma Cozma, Bulevardul Carol 1. Tot joi, de la ora 20.00, va avea loc, în Sala Gaudeamus de la CCS Iaşi, „Cânt şi joc pe plai străbun”- spectacol folcloric dedicat Zilei Europei.
Vineri, pe 10 mai, în intervalul orar 12.00 - 20.00, în Campusul „Tudor Vladimirescu”, se va desfăşura „Laser Tag”, „Folk’n’Iaşi” va începe de la ora 18.00 în Campusul „Titu Maiorescu” Iaşi, iar de la ora 22.00, în Parcul „Grupul Statuar al Voievozilor”, va avea loc „Seara de film”.
Evenimentul „Laser Tag” va avea loc şi pe 11 mai, în acelaşi interval orar şi în acelaşi loc, iar în intervalul 16.00 – 18.00, vor avea loc preselecţiile concursului studenţesc „StudChef”, care se desfăşoară în Campusul „Titu Maiorescu” din Iaşi. O nouă seară „Folk’n’Iaşi” va începe de la ora 18.00 în Grădina Palas, iar „Stud Party” va începe de la ora 19.00 în parcarea CCS Iaşi.
Duminică, 12 mai, „Folk’n’Iaşi” va începe de la ora 18.00 în Parcul „Grupul Statuar al Voievozilor”, „Seara de umor studenţesc” va începe de la ora 19.00 în sala Gaudeamus a CCS Iaşi, iar finala „StudChef” se va desfăşura în intervalul 16.00 – 18.00 în Campusul „Titu Maiorescu”.
Publicație : Ziarul de Iași
Burse acordate de un Business Angel la Tech Ideas by Info Ec Students - bootcampul de antreprenoriat organizat de Rubik Hub
100 de studenți au participat în perioada 17-19 aprilie 2019 la Piatra Neamț, la Tech Ideas by Info Ec Students, un bootcamp de antreprenoriat, unde timp de 3 zile au putut să-și dezvolte ideile de startup alături de traineri și mentori. Evenimentul a fost organizat de Rubik Hub în colaborare cu Facultatea de Economie și Administrarea Afacerilor Iași.
Studenții de la Informatică Economică, coordonați de lect. univ. dr. Patricia Bertea, s-au grupat în 21 de echipe, fiecare echipă având o idee inovativă de startup în tehnologie. În timpul bootcampului, aceștia au trecut printr-o serie de workshopuri susținute de echipa Rubik Hub, care au avut ca obiectiv familiarizarea studenților cu noțiuni de bază pentru orice fondator de startup:
- The Business Idea– pentru validarea pașilor ce trebuie parcurși de la idee până la transformarea acesteia într-un business sustenabil
- Team alignment– pentru a identifica valorile comune între membrii echipei, motivația fiecăruia de a se alătura proiectului, dar și responsabilitățile pe care fiecare și le poate asuma
- Customer understanding– pentru a putea oferi soluții viabile, trebuie în primul rând identificată și înțeleasă nevoia/ problema publicului țintă vizat
- How to Pitch– un workshop menit să te învețe să-ți prezinți într-un mod foarte structurat și clar ideea
În timpul bootcampului, echipele au avut acces la sesiuni de mentorat, oferite de către cei 22 de mentori implicați în eveniment. Mentorii au fost selectați din rândul unor antreprenori și traineri cu experiență și au contribuit la construirea unui mediu de lucru productiv, în care studenții au putut să-și testeze, valideze și să-și dezvolte ideile de startup.
Progresul s-a observat la fiecare dintre cele 21 de echipe, însă, ca în orice competiție – juriul a făcut un clasament în baza criteriilor de jurizare prestabilite, astfel:
- Locul 5: Echipa IntElligence,care vrea să lanseze SpecialEyes, o aplicație care să ajute părinții ce au copii cu sindrom Down
- Locul 4: Echipa Grup de studiu serios, care dorește să lanseze SaveUP, o aplicație prin care poți economisi mai mult.
- Locul 3: Echipa TechFellas, care dorește să lanseze PickIT- o aplicație care oferă statusul meselor libere la cafenele si restaurante, precum și oferte actuale și reviewuri.
- Locul 2: Echipa Rheea, care dorește să lanseze FoodPuzzle,o aplicație care oferă idei de rețete pe baza introducerii unui singur ingredient și livrează acasă ingredientele complete pentru rețeta selectată.
- Locul 1: Echipa Suspecții de la #InfoEC, care vor să lanseze aplicația CARing, un fel de Whatsapp dedicat doar șoferilor.
Elementul surpriză a venit din partea unui susținător înfocat al Rubik Hub, Răzvan Căpățînă, co-fondator Maponia și angel investor care a premiat două echipe cu câte o bursă de încurajare. Cele două echipe sunt:
- Echipa EduNation, care vrea să creeze un magazin online caritabil
- Echipa LevelUp, care vrea să facă o aplicație care să conecteze toate universitățile și studenții să poată urma orice curs de la orice universitate
Iată ce a declarat Vlad Gliga, CEO Rubik Hub despre acest eveniment:
”Când auzi că 100 de studenți împărțiți în 21 de echipe decid săîși dedice 3 zile pentru a lucra structurat și aplicat la ideea lor de business...realizezi că programele de educație antreprenorială sunt o necesitate în completarea curriculei universitare în România!
Pentru Rubik Hub a însemnat o nouă validare a faptului că oamenii care se alătură misiunii noastre ne împărtășesc atât viziunea, cât și valorile. Sunt dispuși să dăruiască înainte de a primi, dar și să lupte pentru a-și atinge propriile obiective. Sunt cei care se dedică 101% cauzei în care cred, care nu se lasă demoralizați de neajunsurile societății și care cred în puterea unei comunități. Profesoara Patricia Bertea este pentru noi acel element disruptiv care împinge lucrurile înainte și contribuie hotărât la schimbare. Este acel profesor de care fiecare școală are nevoie pentru a se alinia la tendințele internaționale și pentru a contribui la dezvoltarea unei societăți progresive.
Suntem convinși căTech Ideas este un bulgare în rostogolire liberă, care cu o viteză uimitoare va lua o mare amploare. Startup-urile de astăzi sunt cele care vor consolida societatea de mâine.”
Și pentru că evenimentul a fost dedicat în totalitate studenților de la Informatică Economică, dl. prof. univ. dr. Florin Dumitriu, director de departament, ne-a împărtășit impresiile sale despre Tech Ideas:
”Am participat la prezentarea ideilor de afaceri de către studenții InfoEc în cadrul evenimentului Tech Ideas de la Rubik Hub. Totul a fost la superlativ, atmosfera greu de descris în cuvinte, iar studenții s-au declarat deosebit încântați de această experiență, deși au lucrat intensiv timp de 3 zile. Am avut ocazia să-i vad pe studenții noștri în altă ipostază decât cea de la școală, iar cel mai mult m-a impresionat implicarea lor. Multe dintre ideile prezentate mi s-au părut de-a dreptul interesante. Dorim să facem din acest eveniment o tradiție în cadrul specializării și să oferim această oportunitate și generațiilor viitoare de la Informatică Economică.”
Mulțumiri se cuvin a fi adresate către toți partenerii care au făcut posibilă organizarea acestui eveniment: Orange, SCC Services Romania, Maponia, Fundatia Autonom, Brandweb, vitaminaqua
Poftis, Dopo Poco, Simigeria PETRU, Ora de Vin &YvonaMardare, Jassyro, Primăria Municipiului Iași
Compania de Transport Public Iasi& FEAA - Facultatea de Economie și Administrarea Afacerilor.
Publicație : Ziarul de Iași
Cambridge University agrees to explore fossil fuel divestment plan
Ex-archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams welcomes plans for fully costed proposals
The former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has welcomed an “urgent change” by Cambridge University, after it agreed to provide fully costed plans setting out how it could divest multibillion-pound endowments from fossil fuel corporations.
The university’s management accepted a motion, known as a grace, which urged Cambridge to “set out fully the advantages and disadvantages, including the social and political ones”, of divestment from global coal, oil and gas companies.
The grace, agreed without adjustments by management, follows an escalating campaign by staff and students concerned about Cambridge’s financial backing for the fossil fuel industry.
Williams said: “It is an important message to our own society and national institutions, but also to all those vulnerable populations across the world who are most at risk from climate change; and it is good to see that clear and focused advocacy in the university has produced so welcome and urgent a change.”
The grace was signed by 324 academics, which campaigners said represented one of the largest totals in the university’s history.
The academic and Green party MEP candidate Jeremy Caddick, who helped push the motion, said: “Two years ago, we asked the university to divest from fossil fuels. Since then, the administration has done everything it can to avoid the question, so I am delighted that the council have accepted this latest grace.”
This year, Clare Hall, the college of the vice-chancellor, Prof Stephen Toope, became the latest to commit to fully divest funds from fossil fuels. The college also said it would withdraw money invested in the university’s £3.2bn central fund if it did not divest within five years.
Awareness of the scale of the ecological crisis has been growing. Last month, more than 1,000 people were arrested during civil disobedience protests across London. Last week, parliament became the latest body to declare a climate emergency. And on Monday, a UN report detailed the urgent threat to human society from the loss of Earth’s natural life.
Campaigners say Cambridge is too closely entwined with the fossil fuel industry. In January, the Guardian revealed the university had been offered two multimillion-pound donations from global fossil fuel corporations at the same time it was considering calls to divest its
The author and Cambridge academic Robert Macfarlane said it was time for the university to act with urgency. “It is good news that Cambridge has at last accepted the need to re-evaluate its position on divestment,” he said.
“Every week, new research, some of it coming out of Cambridge itself, further clarifies the severity of the climate crisis and the speed with which change is happening.”
A spokesperson for the Cambridge zero carbon society, the group campaigning for divestment, said: “The university must produce costed strategies for how it can divest, alongside an evaluation of the social and moral factors in divestment, as hundreds of academics have demanded.
“This is a second chance for the university to end their complicity in the climate crisis and align its economic policy with the scientific evidence produced at this very institution.”
A spokesperson for the university said it recognised climate change was “a real and present danger” and had made two appointments to underline its commitment in the area.
Cambridge said Emily Shuckburgh from the British Antarctic Survey had been appointed as the first director of the university’s carbon futures initiative.
Toope described it as a critical role. “Emily is the ideal person to lead this initiative, which will pool research from across the university to address the greatest challenge the world faces today,” he said.
The university has also appointed Ellen Quigley to “work with the chief financial officer to establish a programme of research into responsible investment”.
Publicație : The Guardian
My alma mater’s current student generation is an upgrade on mine
A small but engaged audience for his reminiscences convinced John Brinnamoor that the future is in safe hands
When I graduated in 1979, the faculty of my department were cheerful and effusive – possibly elated because they’d realised that they were finally getting rid of me.
“Come back and see us,” they said. “Tell us how you get on!”
Things got fairly busy when I set out on my oddly unsuccessful quest to save the world with a shiny new degree. But, four decades later, I was finally getting round to returning to the site of my first university experience.
My reasoning was simple: I’d be spending the weekend in the city anyway, to catch up with some old friends; by adding a cheap extra hotel night to my trip, I could wander over and have a look at the old place. And if I was going to do that, maybe there was something I could do that would actually be useful to someone.
So I emailed my old department offering to give a talk providing its current students the benefits of an ancient graduate’s memories and reflections. The response was rapid and positive. The department proposed that the student society host me, and it promised to provide some nibbles and drinks. Excellent! I made my bookings and got to work on my talk.
Perhaps inevitably, the day didn’t go quite as I’d planned.
The bus dropped me in the familiar spot, but new buildings – with less concrete but even more glass than those I remembered – had mushroomed around it, at least doubling the size of the campus. I must have looked confused because an operative of oddly paramilitary demeanour, with “SECURITY” written on his body armour, offered me assistance. He called me “sir”, which rather shook me, and I accepted his directions with the bumbling thanks of the elderly academic and headed off on the newly arduous trek across campus.
Waiting on the visitor’s chair (I swear it’s the same one) in the head of department’s outer office took me right back to my not infrequent carpetings by his predecessor during my undergraduate years. But the fact that he was younger than me rather shattered the illusion – as did his very pleasant demeanour.
After a tour of the department – where I ogled the magnificent new research kit and was slightly unnerved by a scattering of still-familiar names on office doors – I was presented with the traditional mug of tea and a shared KitKat. I was pleased: the sharing of traditional and perhaps slightly wicked confectionery is, after all, the true token of academic acceptance. And as we chatted about the current research direction of the department, and how much undergraduate provision had changed over the decades, I felt the old madness creeping back. Although I’ve been out of that area of research – as a professional at least – for 20 years or so, I recognised the anticipatory tingling as I started wondering “what if?” What if I could get involved with the subject again?
Suddenly thoughtful, I headed through the gathering dusk to the venue for the gig – a huge, shiny new edifice that had erupted out of the gravel car park edged with greenhouses that I’d known. They had booked a magnificent, beautifully appointed 300-seat lecture theatre, but although I arrived only just in time to set up and test my presentation, the building did seem oddly quiet.
A few folk filtered in and were introduced as the committee of the student society. After cheerful handshakes all round, they plonked themselves in the middle to get a good view of the screen. With a couple of minutes to go, I got a pleasant surprise as a member of faculty I’d worked with back in the 1980s turned up. But that was it. My audience was six – including the host…
Well, I’ve lectured to smaller groups and under much worse conditions – most notably during the Great Norovirus Plague of 2006 – so I cheerfully gave them the full 40 minutes, as requested. They chuckled in the right places and went “Wow!” at my favourite photos, and then asked a series of intelligent and interesting questions, covering more ground than simple politeness required.
Afterwards, we withdrew to the foyer of the building where the Number Two Buffet had just been laid out – the one with the veggie Indian snacks and dips – for a couple of hundred people. As we grazed across its apparently infinite expanse, I chatted with the students.
After our goodbyes, I took the bus back into town and wandered thoughtfully into the first pub I came to – which I realised with a lurch had once been the site of a spectacularly unsuccessful first date.
While I renewed my rather warmer and more enduring relationship with the local ale, I reflected on the day. Whether I had been competing against happy hour in the union bar, or the two-for-one pizza offer in the new Italianate eatery where the burger place used to be, I will probably never know. I had to concede, of course, that there was just the possibility that turning up out of teaching hours to listen to an old bloke talk about stuff wasn’t actually as attractive a proposition as the old bloke would like to think.
But the few who had turned up had talked freely and enthusiastically with me about their impressive ambitions, their expectations and their self-imposed challenges. And, not for the first time, I had been struck by how much more sophisticated, informed and engaged undergraduates today are than I was at the same age – when I would certainly have chosen the pub over a talk by some obscure old-timer.
That timely reminder that the future is in safe hands transformed what could have been an inglorious failure into an unexpectedly satisfying experience.
Publicație : The Times
UK universities trial social media monitoring tool
Software could be adopted across the sector as early warning system for standards issues
Ten institutions were involved in a pilot that provided them with a dashboard displaying near real-time feedback from social media platforms, as well as student review sites.
The tool, which collates data from online ratings and uses an algorithm to assess the sentiments expressed in anonymised online comments, was created by the Quality Assurance Agency and Alex Griffiths, director of data science at Statista Research and a fellow at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation.
The pilot was launched after a study by Dr Griffiths, published last year, revealed a close correlation between the views expressed about institutions on Facebook, Whatuni and StudentCrowd and performance in sector quality measures such as the teaching excellence framework and the National Student Survey.
Since then, Dr Griffiths has extended the research to include material from Twitter, Google and Student Hut, and he has found that the correlation extends to these platforms as well.
The dashboard tots up the amount of positive, neutral or negative feedback an institution has received. It also calculates a moving average “collective judgement score” over a year.
The results of the pilot, presented at the QAA conference on 7 May, showed that institutions found the tool very useful, although often for different reasons, according to Dr Griffiths.
While many larger institutions already had teams monitoring Twitter and Facebook, the new tool allowed some of that work to be automated. Smaller institutions that lack the resources to scour social media found the tool to be “particularly beneficial”, Dr Griffiths said.
The pilot also confirmed that the majority of feedback from students was positive, with a sector-wide average in excess of four out of five.
Paul Hazell, the QAA’s evaluation and analytics manager, explained that some universities wanted to use the tool for continual course monitoring, rather than annual programme reviews, while others wanted to enhance their quality reports to their governors. “Some wanted to use the data to address particular concerns, some as part of their efforts to improve the student experience and one wanted to use it in the academic development reporting process,” he said.
Most universities said that they would prefer feedback at a more granular level: information about who was making the comments, such as past, present or potential students, staff or relatives, Mr Hazell added.
The QAA will finish assessing the pilots, gauge the reaction across the sector and weigh up the cost and benefits of rolling out the tool more widely, said Mr Hazell. “The pilot was very much about the potential for improving quality and the student experience…our intention was not for it to be used for regulatory purposes,” he added.
Dr Griffiths noted that if the QAA did not want to use it as an early warning tool, it could have other uses. “We’ve got some clear steer from providers that they find it useful. The good thing is we’ve got this wealth of data, there are so many ways you can use it,” he said.
“You could forget about individual providers and explore issues across the country, or we could have a chat with the Office for Students about using it in the regulatory sense: it was originally designed as a regulatory tool.”
Publicație : The Times
Occupy sentences land Hong Kong with academic freedom test
Academics are watching to see how the University of Hong Kong will respond after one of its scholars was jailed for his role in 2014 protests
Hong Kong’s leading university faces a major test over academic freedom following the jailing of an academic who played a key role in the Occupy protests.
Benny Tai, an associate professor in the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, was among nine political activists convicted last month for their roles in organising the pro-democracy demonstration, which lasted 79 days in late 2014.
Professor Tai was sentenced to 16 months in prison alongside Chan Kin-man, a retired associate professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on charges that they conspired to commit public nuisance.
While student leaders have previously been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the protest, it marks the first time that academics have been convicted for their part in the “Umbrella Movement” – so-called because of participants’ use of umbrellas to shield themselves from police pepper spray.
Human rights activists believe the new sentences were imposed as a result of pressure from Chinese authorities.
According to the South China Morning Post, 29 alumni have urged HKU to immediately launch a disciplinary inquiry against Professor Tai for advocating civil disobedience “in the disguise of an academic”. In response, a group of 30 other alumni countered with a petition calling on the university to defer any inquiry until court proceedings are exhausted, as Professor Tai has indicated that he will appeal.
Michael O’Sullivan, associate professor in the department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that if HKU were to terminate Professor Tai’s contract, which it is now reviewing, “it will be seen as evidence that academic freedom is severely restricted at HKU, especially after the Johannes Chan case”.
In 2015, the council of HKU voted to reject the appointment of Johannes Chan to the post of pro vice-chancellor. Critics claimed that this was because of Professor Chan’s close ties with Professor Tai.
“Despite the fact that HKU is careful to stress that its review of Tai’s contract is normal procedure for any employee convicted of a criminal offence, the termination of Tai’s contract would, one feels, finally send out a strong message that HKU is at root now a distinctively different educational institution from any of those UK institutions it was once modelled on, both in terms of structure and academic freedom,” Professor O’Sullivan said.
Tao Zhang, a senior lecturer in Nottingham Trent University’s School of Arts and Humanities, said that “Hong Kong has enjoyed a degree of academic freedom unseen in mainland China and has been a place of refuge for some Chinese dissidents and academics”.
However, “this is now under threat”, he said, and the academic convictions will be regarded as a “test” of “how far the administration of HKU can stand up to pressure from Beijing”.
HKU said that in light of the court ruling, it would “follow up in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the University of Hong Kong Ordinance and related rules and regulations”.
Publicație : The Times
Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’
Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’
Any academic who has submitted a research proposal or a journal paper will have felt the sting of an unwelcome comment from at least one peer reviewer – inevitably leading to grumbles among friends that said reviewer simply doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Now a study by Harvard University researchers offers evidence to suggest that almost half of academic reviewers actually share that lack of confidence in their own expertise.
For the experiment, outlined in a working paper published by Harvard Business School, researchers recruited 277 academics from seven different US medical schools to assess funding applications. After evaluating a proposal, the scholars were shown a range of ratings and told that they had been given to the same application by experts in their field, although they had in fact been randomly assigned to be above or below a reviewer’s initial mark.
Having seen this, nearly half of reviewers – 47.1 per cent – chose to amend their rating.
The exercise was anonymised, and a control experiment in which reviewers were not shown others’ scores but were given the option to amend their own resulted in no changes, demonstrating that external influences were the key prompt for scoring revisions.
Significantly, women taking part in the experiment were 13.9 per cent more likely than men to update their review scores. Women working in male-dominated subfields were particularly susceptible to the influence of others, the study found.
Meanwhile, very highly cited “superstar” reviewers – who were more likely to be male – changed their scores 24 per cent less often than others.
Misha Teplitskiy, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science and co-author of the study, said that willingness to change one’s views was not a bad thing in itself. “In fact, it’s generally good to take other opinions into account, all the more so when those opinions come from serious experts,” he told Times Higher Education. What was concerning, however, was that certain groups revised their scores more than others, “even when they have similar expertise”.
In all but one case, reviewers revised their scores towards those given by others. Reviewers who did change their own scores were most likely to do so by one point (86.6 per cent), but researchers cautioned that these “seemingly small updates can have dramatic implications for funding outcomes”.
The difference in self-confidence levels also has wider implications, the report concludes, because “individuals who underrate their competence may be less likely to apply for grants, ask for resources, or seek recognition for their achievements”.
Publicație : The Times
« C’est comme si la psychiatrie était une religion, j’étais devenue mécréante » : une jeune interne raconte ses doutes
Claire Le Men raconte son changement de voie en plein internat en psychiatrie dans une BD, « Le Syndrome de l’imposteur, parcours d’une interne en psychiatrie ».
Avec Lucile Lapierre, on entre dans des bulles. La bulle, fermée, de l’unité pour malades difficiles (UMD) au sein de laquelle l’interne en médecine effectue son premier semestre en psychiatrie. L’autre bulle, flottante, attachante, drôle ou ironique, de la bande dessinée dont elle est le personnage principal.
Claire Le Men se dédouble et signe Le Syndrome de l’imposteur, parcours d’une interne en psychiatrie, aux éditions La Découverte (en librairie depuis le jeudi 2 mai). Une autofiction assumée : dans la vraie vie, Lucile est le deuxième prénom de Claire alors que Le Men signifie « la pierre » en breton…
Lorsque Lucile arrive dans son service de psychiatrie, c’est « la lune de miel » et « tout est merveilleux ». Puis la jeune interne, pleine d’enthousiasme, découvre l’austérité du pavillon 1 hautement sécurisé : les meubles y sont fixés au sol, les couteaux et fourchettes interdits de séjour, les patients tous affublés de la même tenue d’hôpital. « Contenant et sécurisant », ce cadre canalise les malades « présentant un danger » avant qu’ils ne rejoignent le pavillon 2, où sont proposées davantage d’activités comme le sport ou l’ergothérapie, jusqu’au passage vers le pavillon 3, pour travailler à la « resocialisation prochaine des présortants ».
Très vite, les doutes s’installent. Ne portant « ni barbe ni lunettes », la jeune interne se débat avec ses questions de crédibilité et de légitimité qu’elle expose à son chat, le bien nommé Sigmund. Atteinte d’un mal courant – le « syndrome de l’imposteur » –, elle est piégée entre les mailles d’une large toile d’araignée. « Non, non, y’a maldonne, je suis pas docteur… vous allez rire… tout ça n’est qu’un concours de circonstances ! », s’imagine-t-elle répondre à un infirmier interpellant le « Dr Lapierre ».
Le trait est simple, les décors sont minimalistes. Claire Le Men a souhaité un dessin efficace, au service d’une histoire plus à lire qu’à dévorer des yeux. En une petite centaine de pages, tout en finesse et pédagogie, elle éclaire un sujet méconnu, celui de la psychiatrie sous contrainte et de la formation de ses médecins. Elle s’appuie sur des références multiples, de Michel Foucault à l’expérience de Rosenhan, pour interroger le pouvoir « vertigineux » du prescripteur et donner à voir une autre image du malade psychiatrique au sein de la société – vulnérable plutôt que dangereux.
Publicație : Le Monde
A l’hôpital, ces futurs médecins qui ne veulent plus tout sacrifier à leur métier
La nouvelle génération d’internes aspire à davantage d’équilibre, au grand dam de certains de leurs aînés pour qui la médecine est un sacerdoce.
« On considère encore le médecin comme une personne à part, qui doit se donner entièrement à son métier et éponger tous les problèmes de la société. On nous en demande beaucoup… » Trop ? Amina – dont le prénom a été changé – n’est pas loin de le penser. Chaque semaine, elle consacre entre soixante et quatre-vingts heures à l’hôpital. Depuis trois ans, cette étudiante de 28 ans est interne en psychiatrie en Champagne-Ardenne.
Passage obligé pour, chaque année, 8 000 étudiants en médecine, l’internat se compose de stages successifs dans des centres hospitaliers, sur trois à cinq ans selon les spécialités. Lourdes journées de consultations, gardes de nuit, week-ends d’astreinte, tâches administratives et cours à l’université en parallèle… Cette période très intense ne permet pas toujours aux futurs médecins de dégager un temps de repos suffisant à leurs yeux.
Avant-goût d’un métier très prenant, l’internat sonne comme une alarme pour une nouvelle génération d’internes désireuse d’équilibrer vie professionnelle et vie personnelle. Amina a souvent le sentiment de devoir renoncer à des parts importantes d’elle-même. Femme engagée depuis toujours, elle a été contrainte de délaisser les associations antiracistes et féministes dans lesquelles elle est impliquée. L’interne en psychiatrie aimerait aussi avoir le temps, chez elle, de cultiver son potager, et ainsi retrouver le goût des aliments faits maison. « La médecine est mon travail, pas mon identité globale », veut-elle rappeler.
Soixante heures de travail hebdomadaire
Son cas n’est pas isolé. Sur les réseaux sociaux, des internes relaient les aspirations de cette nouvelle génération qui n’entend plus tout sacrifier à la médecine. Aviscene (son pseudo sur les réseaux) est l’un d’eux : il comptabilise 60 000 fans sur Facebook et enregistre en moyenne 30 000 vues sur ses vidéos YouTube, dans lesquelles il raconte son quotidien à l’hôpital. « Oui, les jeunes médecins veulent commencer à 8 heures et finir à 18 h 30 : et alors ? », lance-t-il sans détour. L’interne de 25 ans, en quatrième semestre de médecine générale dans la région lilloise, avoue ne pas vouloir « faire partie de ces professionnels qui arrivent à l’hôpital à 7 heures, partent à 21 heures, et n’ont jamais le temps de voir leurs enfants ».
Publicație : Le Monde
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