Admissions · Entry in September
Sixty places.One intake.Apply by March.
No January entry, no clearing, no rolling admissions. One deadline a year, read carefully by two people.
Book an open dayWe would rather you came and watched first.
Five years is a long time to spend finding out you dislike the work. Open days run on the second Saturday of every month and include an hour in the clinic, watching a real consultation with the patient's consent.
Most people who withdraw in year one say the same thing: they had imagined the job rather than seen it.
Come in September or October, well before the deadline.
The year, in order
January to September
- 6 January
- Applications open. The form takes about an hour; you will need your transcripts and one reference.
- 31 March
- Applications close. We do not accept late files, and there is no clearing round.
- April
- Files are read by two people independently. About half of applicants are invited to interview.
- May
- Interviews and the practical assessment, on site, over four Saturdays.
- Early June
- Offers go out. You have three weeks to accept and pay the deposit.
- September
- Term starts. Sixty places, one intake, no January entry.
Who can apply
- Qualification
- Baccalauréat or an equivalent recognised in France. Any stream: we take as many literature students as science students.
- Language
- Teaching is in French. Non-francophone applicants need B2, evidenced at application.
- Experience
- None required. Having been treated by an osteopath is useful; having shadowed one is better.
- Age
- No upper limit. Roughly a fifth of each cohort is retraining from another career.
The interview and the practical
- The interview
- Thirty minutes with a teacher and a final-year student. We ask why osteopathy rather than physiotherapy or medicine, and we expect a considered answer.
- The practical
- A short exercise with your hands and eyes closed. It tests nothing you should have prepared — only whether you can describe what you feel.
- What we look for
- Curiosity about the body, tolerance for five years of it, and the ability to be corrected without collapsing.
- What we do not
- Prior anatomical knowledge, a medical family, or a rehearsed answer.
Book an open day.
Applications close on 31 March.
One intake a year. Nothing after the deadline, for anyone.
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