[Young medical oncologists: what training? For what professional identity?]

Medical oncology, which post-graduate diploma was established in France in 1984, was built on the practice of anticancer chemotherapy and interdisciplinarity. The political impetus of the Cancer Plan 2009-2013 had helped develop and generalize its learning since 2011. These recent changes explain the lack of information we have on the socialization of young medical oncologists in their discipline. To fill this gap, a qualitative exploratory study was conducted by comprehensive interviews with ten young medical oncologists. It revealed the importance of the physician patient relationship and clinical research in choosing this specialty. It also updated the large part of empowerment in the learning process. Furthermore, although the overall management often appears in the discourse of young oncologists, representation they have boils down to successive intervention of health professionals. The lack of specific training on this main concept in oncology appears to be missing in their vision of health coordination. Finally, the lack of training of consultation activities seems to be an important factor in the difficulty of projecting a private practice.