“A big good luck to all the girls and boys who take the first step towards the Faculty of Medicine this morning. You are the future of our most precious asset, the National Health Service”. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, writes this on Facebook on the occasion, today, of the entry test for 66,000 students throughout Italy.
The tests for access to the Faculty of Medicine are starting today. The places available for this year amount to a total of 13,072. A total of 66,638 candidates registered for the test, about two thousand fewer candidates than last year. “There is a very strict and organized protocol that provides for differentiated access, the distance in the classroom where tests are carried out, masks, sanitation, control of spaces that is carried out by the university itself with the support of the national civil protection and all the other local institutions, so there is a very detailed organization that will allow the tests to be carried out in perfect safety, guaranteeing the students “, assured yesterday the Minister of University and Research, Gaetano Manfredi, on the eve of the tests.
You criticize the students. “It is unacceptable – says Camilla Guarino of Link Coordinamento Universitario – that this selection be made to become a doctor, when our National Health Service is still in serious emergency due to a shortage of staff with the pandemic still in progress. The short-sighted measures taken during the lockdowns are emblematic: in various regions of Italy retired doctors, military doctors or even newly graduated doctors without adequate training have been called into service. We are against any barrier to access “.
“It is unacceptable that a student leaving high school cannot freely choose his course of study” – says Alessandro Personè – from the National Executive of the Students’ Union – the tests do not really evaluate preparation, but they want to select and reduce number of future university students “.
Protest against the limited number – First day of the medical tests, in Turin, and in front of the Lingotto entrances, the protest of the students of the Communist Youth Front is staged, who have unrolled a banner with the words’ The pandemic has proved it, the closed number must be abrogated ‘. There are 66,000 candidates for 13,000 faculty seats. “Does the government really believe that adding 5,000 places this year alone will solve the problem of a collapsing health system?” Asked Ivan Boine, provincial secretary of the FGC, in a statement. “For some time now, the lack of at least 50,000 nurses and tens of thousands of doctors has been denounced – adds Boine -. We see systematic cuts and measures implemented in support of private clinics that profit on health and in the face of the virus they ignored it. . Precisely the limited number for the medical faculty is one of those measures that have destroyed public health “.
In Naples 4508 aspiring doctors – There are 4508 young people who, today in Naples, will try the test for access to the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Federico II University of Naples. The places available are 557 for Medicine, 60 for the Faculty of Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics. Also this year, the tests take place at the Monte Sant’Angelo headquarters, in the Fuorigrotta district. The boys, summoned from 8.00 am, are required to carry a self-certification relating to the lack of symptoms from Covid-19 and wear the mask for the entire time they remain inside the university buildings. At the entrances to the classrooms, the columns with hand sanitizing gel have been positioned. Finally, once in the classroom, social distancing is enforced among the children.
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