a new physiotherapy school opens near Tours at the start of the 2025 school year

Thirty-six future physiotherapists will return to school near Tours in September 2025. A new training institute will open in Chambray-lès-Tours, the second of its kind in the region.

Chambray-lès-Tours will welcome back to school 2025and for the first time, a promotion of student physiotherapists. This training institute aims to increase the number of masseurs-physiotherapists, while Centre-Val de Loire has one of the highest medical densities the weakest in Franceand the medical profession is aging.

This training institute in masso-physiotherapy (IFMK) will be located at the same address as the Campus Red Cross Competencehas Chambray-lès-Tours, near the CHRU. The regional director, Éric Trouvé, will also be responsible for training. There will be 36 students par promotion.

As in other IFMKs, the course lasts four yearswith more than 1,400 hours of internship. The Regional Council can cover the entire annual cost of training if the student is eligible. Otherwise, it costs 9,200 euros per year. Work-study is possible from the second year.

To remedy the problem of medical desertsthe region has already increased the number of places in health training in 2019, for example from 90 to 110 massage-physiotherapy students at the Orléans Institute.