New Reform: Say Goodbye to Registered Number Test in Medicine

Say goodbye to registered number test Medicine: you can enter the degree course freely and the selection comes after the first semester. This is established by the reform whose basic text was unanimously approved by the Select Committee of the Senate Education Commission: the text provides that it will be possible to register for Medicine and Surgery , Dentistry and Prosthetics Dentistry and Medicine in the first semester. without trying your hand at the test. At the end of this first period, to enter the second semester, students must have passed the basic subjects in the biomedical, healthcare, pharmaceutical and veterinary fields that will be then identified during the legal process. Students who cannot yet get in will receive the education credits needed to be able to change majors in the first year and not have to pay for new registrations.

NEXT YEAR

The reform should come into effect starting from the academic year 2025-2026. So for the next year, 2024-2025, the test dates for admission to the faculty are still scheduled for next May and July with candidates having the opportunity to participate in both tests. And this may be the last year of testing. “The Select Committee of the Education Commission of the Senate unanimously adopted the basic text to what he said to limited numbers in Medicine – said the president of the Commission, Roberto Marti – that it was an intense task to find the greatest convergence of all political forces: the odious clausus number we have known for the past 25 years will no longer exist. ” What are the next steps for the legislative process? The text prepares for the delegation that the Government, within twelve months from the date of entry into force of the law, will adopt the legislative orders necessary for the review of access to Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine. Not only that, the executive must guarantee uniform and coordinated programs in all faculties and harmonize course study plans to reach a total number of university training credits established at a national level. Also because admission to the second semester of master’s degree courses will depend on the achievement of all the credits established for the first semester exams. In this way we will then reach a national merit level. «Transparency, fairness, merit: it is on these principles that the government and the Ministry of the University want to reform access to medicine – explained the minister Anna Maria Bernini – combining the legitimate wishes of students with needs the health care system. We know that we will be able to train at least 30 thousand new future doctors in the coming years, for whom we must guarantee quality preparation, paying particular attention to the opportunities that new technologies offer offered in the medical field. We are working on a structural reform that goes beyond the limited number and aims to train excellence and value skills. We are on the right track. I am very proud of the path that the Parliament has also started, in the name of listening, the greatest cooperation and unity of purpose.”

The aim is to address the ongoing shortage of doctors in the various specialties; from basic to emergency medicine. The process is long and complex, as it is also closely related to admission to specific courses, but in the meantime we are trying to create a turning point in access: «The time is there – said the president of Veneto, Luca Zaia – today we find ourselves with a shortage of 50 thousand doctors in Italy and 3,500 in Veneto, because of bad choices in the past made from above at the national level. The great surgeons and doctors are selected through the screening process and then compare themselves in the operating room and on the ward. Certainly not with an absurd initial ban with cross-examination. Merit, being evaluated at a certain point in the academic career, is the right way to create a rational selection. It is clearly up to the national legislator to do so. This will ensure that the best, fittest and most experienced in the profession are always moving forward.”

THE DOCTORS’ NO

However, the white coats are not of the same opinion, it is indeed the Medical Association that thunders against this first step of the reform: «We are clearly against it, and it is not a rule of common sense this – explained Filippo Anelli, president of the National Federation of Surgeons and Dentists – eliminating the limited number in Medicine means that in 10 years, the time needed to train a doctor, there will be an abundance of our graduates who have no chance of finding work as doctors. We will only take out unemployed people.”