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The first green light for the abolition of programmed number in the faculties of Medicine he brings doctors’ associations and unions onto the barricades. Convinced that it is a short-sighted solution to the problems of National Health Service, including staff shortages. On Wednesday, the select committee of the Senate Education Committee unanimously approved the basic text “to say enough to the limited number in Medicine“, announced the President of the Commission, Roberto Marti (Lega), satisfied with the adoption of the text which saw “maximum convergence of all political forces”. In addition to the medical School you can also freely enroll in study courses in Dentistry e Vetwithout limitations.
The new rules should come into effect in 2025. The reform provides that one can freely register with the first semester. To access the second semester you will have to achieve all credits university courses established for the exams of the first semester, subject to placement in a useful position in one merit ranking national. In case of non-admission, the recognition of credits will be guaranteed for the continuation of a different course of study to be indicated as a second choice, making the admission compulsory and free. double registration limited to the first semester. The provision gives the government a one-year mandate to write the reform in detail. In exercising the delegation, the Government will have to guarantee uniform and coordinated programs and the harmonization of the course study plans, for a total number of credits established at national level. It will also have to identify “ways to allow thealignment of the seating quota of degree courses with places available for access to post-graduate training courses” and introduce “a monitoring system of the needs of the national health service personnel, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health”.
The university minister Anna Maria Bernini he rejoices: “Transparency, equity, merit: it is on these principles that the government and the University Ministry want to reform access to Medicine, combining the legitimate aspirations of students with the needs of the healthcare system. We know that in the next few years we will be able to train at least 30 thousand future new doctorsto whom we must guarantee quality preparation, especially attentive to the opportunities that new technologies offer in the medical field”.
But for Pierino Di Silverio, national secretary of the largest hospital doctors’ union, theAnaao Assomedthe move “demonstrates once again that political blindness is now becoming chronic” and is “the final blow to medical education“, a symptom of “absolute lack of future vision or worse, a future vision that will lead to a new medical plethora that will favor low-cost private labor. All this in stark contrast with the statements of the President of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Health on the defense of the NHS”. “In Italy”, recalls Di Silverio, “there is a programmed number and instead of investing in programming the doors are opened to 70,000 very young students, confusing the right to study with the right to enroll in the Faculty. But we will not remain silent. We will call together all the students and postgraduates, the whole category, promoting signature collections and demonstrations throughout Italy so that everyone is aware that this is the final blow to medical training, to the profession and above all to the public healthcare system”.
“We are clearly against it, and this is absolutely not a common sense rule – he adds Filippo Anellipresident of National Federation of Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (Fnomceo) -. Eliminating the number means that in 10 years, the time it takes to train a doctor, we will have a plethora of graduates who will have no chance of finding a job as doctors. We will only produce gods unemployed“. According to Anelli, however, the test should still be eliminated as it is currently structured. “We propose – he explains – to anticipate the first semester of Medicine in the months preceding the academic year involving high schools and universities. This way the kids could prepare during school to chemistry, physics and biology exams with an ad hoc training path. And then based on the results we can build the ranking for access”.
The cap has been much discussed in recent years marked by a growing shortage of medical personnel. Last January some students Of Medicine (e aspiring students) they had manifested in Piazza degli Apostoli, in Rome, against the limited number. Among them there were young people who had applied to be admitted to the University and others who, while waiting for developments, had undertaken routes all’estero reaching the point of spending 20 thousand euros a year.
