Paris Ouest
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About the city
Created in 1991, it’s a very youg faculty. Since 2002, Paris Ouest (the medicine faculty) left Paris V (another medicine faculty) for going to Versailles. We are near from Paris, so that will let you visiting this beautiful city during your trip.
SCOPE had been created in PO 4 years ago and SCORE this year. We hope that will be growing up and that we will receive and send a lot of students.
The University of Paris Ouest send students off to do clerkships in many hospitals of the West of Paris. Depending on your hospital/laboratory, you could be in different towns, but always in the neighborhood of Paris, our famous capital city, and Versailles, our well-known royal city.
Paris is the capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. It is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe. Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centres, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Paris has many nicknames, but its most famous is "La Ville-Lumière" (literally, "The Light City"; although most often translated as "The City of Lights" or as "The City of Light"), a name it owes both to its fame as a centre of education and ideas and its early adoption of street lighting.
Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with 45 million tourists every year in the Paris Region, 60% of whom are foreign visitors. There are numerous iconic landmarks among its many attractions, along with world-famous institutions and popular parks.
Some examples:
- Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l'Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle.
- The Eiffel Tower - a "temporary" construction of Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exposition.
- The Louvre - extensive art gallery.
- Notre Dame de Paris (Cathedral of Notre Dame) on the Île de la Cité - Paris's 12th-century ecclesiastical centrepiece.
- Statue of Liberty replica - a smaller version of the New York City harbor statue which France gave to the United States in 1886, located on the Île des Cygnes on the Seine. Another version is in the Luxembourg Garden.
- Centre Georges-Pompidou - Hosting the Paris Museum of Modern Art.
- Parc de la Villette - Hosting the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, a science museum, and the Cité de la Musique which houses various musical institutes, a museum, and a concert hall.
In Paris area:
- Disneyland Resort Paris - the largest theme park in Europe.
- Palace of Versailles - The famous former palace of French kings.
Local weather
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The chart shows the average minimum and maximum temperatures for each month. It is hottest in July and August and coolest between December and February,though Paris is rarely freezing cold. Temperatures are plesant in the spring and autumn.
August is the wettest month in Paris as well as the hottest. In August and September you risk getting caught in storms. Sudden showers, sometimes with bail, can occur between January and April, notoriously in March. There is occasional snow in winter.
Local transportation
The Paris Transportation Network network is very diverse and exists literally over many levels. The city's buses, trams, Métro, Autoroutes, trains and planes together all serve to maintain a high level of communication between Paris's many different districts and beyond.
Each incoming receives 200 euros from our local committee to pay public transport.
Social life
Paris is a multicultural city with a lots of things to do...----
The hospitals
There are 6 main hospitals in which you can do your clerkship:
- Ambroise Paré, Boulogne Billancourt
- Raymond Poincaré, Garches
- Foch, Suresnes
- André Mignot, Le Chesnay
- Ste Périne, Paris
- Poissy-St Germain (2 areas)
You can ask for many departments: Internal Medecine, Surgery, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Hematology, Cardiology, Dermatology, Rhumatology... Like we have a lot of hospitals in our faculty, we can propose you a lot of different practicing. If it’s not existe yet, you can write us and we will see what we can do with the hospitals.
For SCORE we have four projects:
"Comparing antibiotic use in Europe based on demographic standardization" (Basic Science)
"Relationship between intra-tumoral expression of microRNAs and benefit from adjuvant tamoxifen in ER-positive postmenopausal breast carcin" (Basic Science)
"Biological and clinical characterization of GISTs with homozygous KIT mutations" (Clinical Project with lab work)
"Expression of apoptosis genes in melanoma (human) cell lines" (Basic Science)
Accommodation & boarding
Most of the time, you live in the student's house/apartment. He provides you breakfast and dinner.
Social program
We will organize for our visitors some visites of the most famous parisian monuments (Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées...) and of course of the bars and things like that. Don’t worry, we like parties !!!
We hope that have convince you and see you soon !
