Respecting social distancing and biosafety regulations, 165 last year students from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Rosario (UNR) staged yesterday the first face-to-face exam in a high-school house since the quarantine began. It was a written work, which is presented as a projected clinical case, and that the students responded to render the final practice, according to the dean of the Faculty, Jorge Molinas. “We are excited about the possibility, aware of the responsibility that implies, and hoping that everything goes well so that it is a first step to begin to recover very slowly in-person activities at the University,” rector Franco Bartolacci said.
Following a request from Rector Bartolacci, on June 16, Governor Omar Perotti authorized the taking of face-to-face exams for the 49th cohort of the Medicine degree, whose students must take a written final exam to conclude the degree. “The consultation was made and we obtained the authorization at the national level due to the request and the presentation of the corresponding protocol by the house of high studies,” said the governor after signing the authorization that generated expectations in the university community.
Last week, representatives of the Faculty, the COAD teaching union and UNR authorities finalized the details in the elaboration of measures to carry out the face-to-face exam. The protocol included taking extreme care when checking admission, guaranteeing the confirmation of symptoms, giving details to ensure traceability in the event that covid cases appear. 19. In addition, they asked to guarantee transportation for the teachers involved. they arrive at the Faculty safely, and protect all the people who are part of the risk groups.
With anxiety and nervousness for having to take the last subject of the degree, but also knowing that the eyes would be on them since they were going to be the first to do it in person at a Medical School in the country since the last 20 In March, the isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic was decreed. The 165 students showed up yesterday to carry out the final practice. With chinstraps and the masks provided by the house of high studies, they were divided into five groups in the classrooms with a capacity of 180 people, of which 20 percent of their capacity was used to guarantee distance.
“The exam has a fairly complex protocol, it is done in an orderly manner with five different entrances, spaced apart, with a reasonable time for arrival until they are able to sit down, until ventilation is scheduled,” said Dean Molinas. “The habitual instance to render the final practice in the Faculty is the sanitary camp, which in some special cases is covered with an examination of these characteristics, today (yesterday) the exception is the rule,” he added.
For his part, the vice-chancellor Darío Masía announced that if yesterday’s instance is positive, they will progressively present different projects so that the other faculties in the health area can retake the face-to-face exams.
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