The creation of post-graduate medical teaching as social phenomenon in the middle of the twentieth century

The explosive improvement in the middle of the twentieth century, in medical learning, induced, in medical practice, an unprecedented mutation. The adjustment of the physicians to this deep modification in each aspect of their practice, became, for the practitioners an absolute need and a deontological duty. From 1947, first in Paris, then, swiftly, all over France, the post-graduate medical teaching was created.