From nurses to physiotherapists: 574 posts

There are 574 places available for the University of Annunzio de Chieti-Pescara for degree courses in health professions, including nurses, physiotherapists and other fields, with the registration date set for Tuesday. The date for d’Annunzio follows a few days from L’Aquila (488 places), another Abruzzo university that was involved in the elections. The entrance exam is set for September 5, for a total of 1,062 places, and last year there were 2,153 applications, with a ratio of 2.0, slightly higher than the national average of 1.9.
The courses offered at d’Annunzio are Health Care, Dietetics, Physiotherapy, dental hygiene, Nursing, speech therapy, Orthoptics and ophthalmological support, Obstetrics, prevention methods in the environment and the workplace, cardiocirculatory pathophysiology and methods cardiovascular perfusion, biomedical laboratory techniques, medical radiation techniques, imaging and radiotherapy, occupational therapy. The election on September 5 will be held at 11 am in the university offices, and candidates must appear at 8 am for personal identification.
There are 41 state universities where admission applications were submitted between August 5 and 31. There are approximately 35,800 jobs available in Italy, an increase of 3.9% on the 34,453 last year, when there were 66,686 applications, with a ratio of almost two applications for one job, as an overall average of the 22 professions. In detail, the highest ratio was for Physiotherapist with 6.8, Speech Therapy 4.7, Midwife 4.3 and Dietitian 3.7. Followed by the other eighteen, including Nurses with twenty thousand positions available and a ratio of 1.1 varying between 0.9 in the universities of the Mid-North and almost two in the universities of the South The employment opportunities are relatively certain and in a short period of time, therefore always being in first place among the different disciplinary areas, as indicated by Almalaurea data, with an employment rate of 77% for professions health care, equivalent to an average doubling of 39% of all 16 discipline areas. (a.rap.)