Health and medicine · selection
Four written papers in October, ten ECOS (simulated clinical stations) later. Your ranking decides your specialty and your city.
The real format of the exam, and what actually decides it.
Four written papers, 3 hours each, for the EDN (épreuves dématérialisées nationales, national computer-based exams): three composition units of 90 to 110 questions (QRM, QRU, QROC), then the LCA, the critical reading of an article, in two 1.5-hour units on the same afternoon. Your university adds a training-pathway file, 60 points maximum. The ECOS come afterwards: ten stations over two days.
What decides is rank, not average. The computer-based papers account for 60% of the mark, the ECOS for at least 30%, and the balance depends on the weighting of your specialty choices. Without 14/20 in rank A at one of the two sessions, access to the ECOS closes for that campaign, and a good rank B mark does not compensate.
The format and weight of each paper, without the noise around it.
Accuracy and speed. In QRM, scoring is by discordance: one unacceptable answer cancels the question.
Read an article like a clinician: method, bias, what can be drawn from it for a patient. Reciting items is not enough.
Act, say and show without help, with or without a simulated patient: announcement, examination, procedure, strategy.
Prove every point: optional unit, master's, mobility, commitment, professional experience.
The dates that matter, with their status.
2027 campaign: the papers were held from 12 to 15 October 2026 and registrations are closed. The CNG uses this name for the session leading to entry into the DES in 2027. Results on the Even account; the 14/20 threshold in rank A decides access to the ECOS.
Announced by the Scientific Council on 29 August 2026; the CNG still shows 'to come' as of 28 October 2026. Two half-days of 3 h, without the LCA, organised by your UFR. Only first-session marks count for matching.
2027 calendar not published as of 28 October 2026; it must be set six months before the papers. In 2026, the ECOS took place on 2 and 3 June.
Not published. In 2026, choices ran from 17 August to 11 September, for allocation in September.
If you sit the EDN in October 2027, no calendar is published as of 28 October 2026: neither the dates nor the registration period.
Dates checked on October 28, 2026. Any date that hasn’t been published is flagged as such.
The obstacles that cost you points, not the clichés.
The 14/20 applies only to rank A knowledge, and you must reach it at one of the two sessions. A good rank B mark does not make up for a rank A below the threshold: you sit the second session and do not access the ECOS.
It opens access to the ECOS, but only first-session marks go into the matching file (decree of 21 December 2021, art. 9). Catching up costs places.
The ECOS have no second session. Below 10/20, the sum of the ten unweighted stations, no matching that year: re-enrolment in DFASM3 and a new session the following year.
Two articles in three hours, questions counted double. Method and bias earn more than the volume of knowledge.
A course goes in. Ready-made materials come out. You study.
The threshold applies only to rank A, but both marks go into the 60%. Make sheets for rank A for precision, rank B for coverage.
Two articles in three hours, 13 to 17 questions per article. Practise answering without going back to the text: time is the constraint.
Eight minutes in 2026, without help, with a classmate noting what you say and do. Ten stations follow one another like a series.
Study materials, not a promise you’ll pass.
That is the size of a composition unit. You generate quizzes from an item and run series of that length to last three hours.
A rank A item is sheeted for precision, a rank B item for coverage. You upload the PDF, photo or Word file and get the sheet either way.
For the ECOS: you import a station's reference framework, you get a short grid to print, which a classmate fills in while you act the eight minutes.
It only reads your files: useful for rechecking a bias criterion in the LCA without leaving your sheet.
Summry does not read a scientific article for you and does not replace a simulated patient: the LCA is trained on real articles, the ECOS with a classmate who assesses.
The questions we get asked most often about EDN et ECOSn.
Two groups of knowledge in the second-cycle syllabus. Rank A is the base every student must master to enter the third cycle; rank B covers more advanced knowledge specific to each discipline. Only rank A has a threshold: 14/20. Both marks count in the 60% of the overall mark.
You sit the second session, organised by your UFR and announced for January 2027: two half-days of 3 h, without the LCA. If you reach the threshold, you access the ECOS, but only first-session marks count for matching. Failing both sessions closes access to the ECOS for the year.
At least 30% of the overall mark, with a weighting that varies according to your specialty choices. The computer-based papers account for 60%. Alongside, the training pathway adds up to 60 points to the matching file, on a 100-point scale: it is not a percentage of the mark. So there is no fixed 60/40 split.
Partly. The 2027 campaign held its papers from 12 to 15 October 2026, with results on 30 October. The second session is announced for January 2027, with no decree published as of 28 October 2026. The June 2027 ECOS and the August-September matching are still to be confirmed. If you sit the EDN in October 2027, your calendar is not published either.
Once, by derogation: giving up matching and repeating DFASM3, with the agreement of the UFR director and the opinion of a commission. For the ECOS, two attempts maximum, then authorisation from the university president. The placements of the extra year are not validated, unless DFASM3 is not validated.
Information gathered from official websites, checked on October 28, 2026. The links open the original source.
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