Medical research in France.

Education & Research in Medical Optronics in France

First we present here the main post-graduate courses proposed in France both for physicians and engineers in medical optronics. After we explain which medical domains are concerned by this teaching, essentially computer assisted surgery, telemedicine and functional exploration. Then we show the main research axes in these fields, in which new jobs have to be invented and new educational approac...

Cardiovascular Research in France

Walnut Research in France

Walnut research in France is carried out by scientists employed by the Centre Technique Interprofessionel des Fruits et Legumes (CTIFL) and the Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA). (The Association Foret-Cellulose (AFOCEL) which has been active in research on walnut propagation is terminating their walnut project this year.) CTIFL focuses on applied research and technology tra...

AI Research In France

In the first section, some characteristic features of AI research in France are presented, including difficulties with the current means and the current organization of AI research. In the second section, the state-of-the-art in different areas of AI is described. Besides some weaknesses, and in spite of the general difficulties mentioned in the first section, strong points and great potentiali...

Postgraduate medical education in France.

IT is very difficult to present a picture of postgraduate medical education in France, since this is the result of activities in so many hospital and university centres, varying moreover from place to place. That in Paris is the most ambitious and will be described here. One other preliminary observation must be made: neither town nor country practitioners have much time to give to postgraduate...