title: [Role of the medical officer for the assessment of driving ability. Practical aspects, liability and confidentiality].
abstract: Every candidate for a driving license or any driver who meets a health problem must, on its own initiative, to submit to a medical examination. The list of approved doctors is available in the prefectures. There is a list of medical conditions that are incompatible with the licensing or involve restrictions on the use of the license. The treating physician is not authorized to carry out the assessment of medical fitness to drive for his own patients. This is the prefect who decides after consulting a licensed physician or medical committee composed of licensed doctors. If it deems medically necessary, the medical consultant outside medical commission may request the person to be summoned before the primary medical committee whose jurisdiction is then substituted for his. Possible advice is: fitness, temporary fitness, fitness subject to the license restrictions on use, or the inability of the candidate or driver to drive vehicles of the requested class. We emphasize the absence of shared secret between the attending physician and the medical officer or the Medical Committee.
authors.affiliation: CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80054 Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Manaouil
authors.affiliation: CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80054 Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: de Lentaigne de Logivière
authors.affiliation: 80000 Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Seillier
authors.affiliation: CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80054 Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Jardé
mesh_terms: D001333:Automobile Driver Examination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D010819:Physician's Role