A licence acces sante is a French bachelor's degree in any discipline that includes a health option. Students who validate a year of such a degree may apply for admission to medicine, midwifery, dentistry, pharmacy or physiotherapy, which makes the LAS the second university route into health studies alongside PASS.
French acronym: licence acces sante, a bachelor's degree with a health access option
LAS, licence acces sante, licence avec option sante
health access degree
The student enrols in an ordinary degree course, in law, biology, sport science, psychology, economics or another field, and follows a health option on top of the programme of that degree. Applications for a health place may be made at the end of the first, second or third year of the degree, within the limit of attempts set by the regulations, and the year in question must be validated. Admission combines academic results with an assessment stage organised by the university, and the first application is filed through Parcoursup.
In PASS the health teaching is the major and the other discipline the minor; in LAS the proportions are reversed. A student admitted from a LAS joins the DFGSM like any other, and no distinction remains afterwards. What differs is the fallback: a LAS student who is not admitted continues the degree already under way and keeps a full qualification in that discipline.
The LAS is designed around the French degree system, its credit rules and its university calendar, which makes it demanding to plan from Casablanca, Algiers or Tunis. Families who compare routes often weigh it against a medical course in another EU member state, where the student enters the medical curriculum directly and the degree leads to practice in France through automatic recognition. Credits earned in a LAS are expressed in ECTS, which helps when a file later has to be read by a university or an authority in another country.
A LAS is not an easier version of PASS. The number of health places remains governed by the numerus apertus, and the student carries a full degree programme alongside the health option. Nor is the choice of discipline neutral: it determines the studies that continue if no health place is obtained, so it should be a subject the student genuinely wants to study.
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