Moreover, each medical student has to spend at least one of his/her six semesters of training in a GP’s practice as from 2017. However, CESP subsidies were given to only 236 students, including 172 in general medicine, out of 7 700 new students in 2016 (Anguis, 2017), and demographic forecasting and training capacity planning are mostly done at the national level using quotas covering the number of students admitted to medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and midwifery (and physiotherapy in part), and other health-related education programmes such as nursing and speech therapy (numerus clausus). In the French context education and training are provided through public universities and professionals have freedom of location choice.