Medical Reform
After the war, Dausset worked as an intern at the Paris Hospitals, which were in a state of disrepair and badly needed structural reform. Dausset formed a group of radical doctors who pushed for change in the French medical system. Due to his activist role in this group, Dausset was appointed as the Advisor to the Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education. Dr. Robert Debré worked with Dausset, and pushed the government in to forming a committee for the reform of medical education. Hospitals were joined with universities for the first time in France, and doctors were required to instruct classes to medical students. Research began within the hospitals themselves, as opposed to in the universities alone. Finally a law was passed that instituted mandatory full-time work for doctors in France.
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