Health, social security and grants

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris, with the help of its five member schools, has set up a student health service on campus that is being developed with your help and for all students on campus.

Located in the heart of the campus (Pavillon Broca), the IP Paris health centre is open Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 8.30pm.

A coordinator is on hand to welcome and guide you.

She is also responsible for setting up awareness and prevention campaigns throughout the year.

Your Health Unit Coordinator - Ms Elisabeth Rossi - can be contacted 

• By telephone on 01 69 33 39 31 or 06 69 59 99 24
• By e-mail

You'll also find a number of health professionals on hand to welcome you.

• A general practitioner is also on hand to answer all your health questions.
• A team of 3 physiotherapists on campus to welcome you
• An osteopath available part-time to welcome you and offer sessions by appointment
• a midwife for gynaecology and contraception

Payment for these consultations can be made by cheque, bank transfer or cash.

Only the doctor does not charge for his consultations.

To find out more 

For the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is offering you the opportunity to consult a doctor by teleconsultation, without having to go to the surgery and without having to pay in advance.

This service is available every day of the week (including weekends) from 7am to 11pm.

Consultations are free, and all you need is your carte vitale.
 

Creating your Qare account couldn't be easier!

1. Complete the questionnaire using the following link: surveymonkey.com/r/N7V7J2K
2. Confirm the account activation email sent by Qare.

Following your administrative registration, you will receive an email from Qare to your student email address to activate your account.

You will then be able to make an appointment with the practitioner of your choice from over 40 specialities, including general medicine, dermatology, addiction medicine, nutrition, cardiology, gynaecology, sexology, sports medicine, etc. There is no limit to the number of consultations you can have.

As with an office appointment, you choose the doctor and the time. At the end of your video consultation, you will receive a prescription and a report if necessary.

Help for masters and PhD track students

Psychologists in each school are available to listen carefully and sympathetically to masters and PhD track students.

The psychologist at your teaching school can be contacted by email or telephone.

Consultations can be conducted remotely or face-to-face.

Some psychologists are not on campus every day, so don't hesitate to contact them:

Help for doctoral students

For doctoral students, if you are experiencing difficulties in your studies or your personal life, Sylvie Coussot, a psychologist entirely dedicated to doctoral students at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, is available to listen attentively and sympathetically.

After an initial no-obligation meeting, you can take advantage of integrative therapy tailored to your needs and expectations.

Sylvie Coussot is available on site from Monday to Friday and can also talk to you remotely if circumstances require.

Each school has a disability advisor.

If you have any questions or require information, please do not hesitate to contact your school's advisor.

If you don't know who to contact, please write o the generic IP Paris address.

So that you can start talking about health and prevention as soon as you arrive on campus, we suggest you come along to the Health and Prevention Day, traditionally held on the last Thursday in October.

You'll find all the players involved in health, as well as student associations working in this field and partners.

Orsay hospital is part of the Nord Essonne hospital group and is located at 4 Place du Général Leclerc in Orsay.

You can contact the hospital on 01 69 29 75 75.

The adult emergency department at Orsay hospital is located on the ground floor of the general building.

It welcomes patients 24 hours a day, for medical, surgical or psychiatric reasons, from the age of 15 years and 3 months.

What you need to bring with you to the emergency department (as far as possible): identity card, carte vitale or certificate of entitlement (ameli), contact details, prescriptions for any medicines you are currently taking, results of any tests you have had (X-rays, laboratory tests, etc.).
 

There are two pharmacies on campus where you can buy medicines with or without a prescription: Pharmacie de Lozère (15 min walk) or Pharmacie des écoles (10 min bus ride, Place des causeuses in Palaiseau).

To buy medicines with a prescription from your doctor, you will need to show your carte vitale or your certificate of entitlement (ameli) to obtain partial reimbursement from the social security system, as well as your third-party payment card if you have a mutual insurance company.

If you have a carte vitale, you will be reimbursed automatically, but if you do not yet have one (e.g. as a new student), the pharmacy will need to provide you with a treatment form, which you will need to complete and send to the CPAM (Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie) to request reimbursement.
 

The Moulon medical center, located in Gif-sur-Yvette and accessible from the campus, includes 2 general practitioners, one of whom also practises gynaecology, an osteopath, a clinical psychologist and a speech therapist.

These health professionals are available for consultations after making an appointment on Doctolib
You can also call 01 53 66 64 27 (secretariat) or 01 69 85 33 13 (medical practice).

Consultations are available in French, English and German.

The centre is located at 2 Allée des Marguilliers in Gif-sur-Yvette.
To get there, take bus 91.10 or 91.06 and get off at the Juliot Curie stop.
 

At weekends and on public holidays, you can also go to the Maison Médicale de garde in Orsay.

It is located at 35, boulevard Dubreuil in Orsay, opposite the Lozère RER station.

To contact them, call 01 64 46 91 91 before you go.

You can also contact the BAPU (Bureau d'aide psychologique universitaire).

A BAPU, a medical-social establishment set up in 1956, is a consultation centre for students seeking psychological help.
The BAPU team is made up of psychoanalysts (psychiatrists and psychologists), social workers, university lecturers and administrative staff.

The first consultations, known as intake interviews, enable the student's request to be clarified.
During these, psychotherapy may be initiated with the therapist initially met.
The responses provided and the length of time students spend at the centre vary, depending on each student and the type of difficulties they are experiencing.

Several options are available:

• One-off consultations, with or without referral to another structure
• Supportive psychotherapy, for a limited period of time
• Psychoanalytical psychotherapy.

To benefit from the BAPUs, you must have student status and be affiliated to a health insurance scheme.

Here are the BAPUs closest to the campus:

• BAPU Cachan - 4, rue Raspail 94230 Cachan - tel: 01 46 65 62 22
• BAPU Luxembourg - 44, rue Henri Barbusse 75005 Paris - tel. 01 43 29 65 72
• BAPU Pascal - 30, rue Pascal 75005 Paris - tel. 01 43 31 31 32

If you have dental pain on Sundays and public holidays, you can find the dental surgeon on duty in Essonne by calling 01 69 10 00 40.

To find other health professionals around the campus, don't hesitate to use the platforms for booking medical appointments:

• The Doctolib platform, which, depending on the doctor, can offer you teleconsultationsqui peut, en fonction du médecin, vous proposer des téléconsultations
• The Maiia platform
• The Allo Docteur platform
• The Rendez-vous médicaux platform