2023-10-29 15:00:00
Catalan doctors propose revolutionize the single university district with an innovative formula, putting a cap of 30 percent of students of Medicine in the faculties of Catalonia from other regions. Thus, the 70 percent of remaining places would be for students residing in the autonomous community. This is the proposal that generates consensus among the medical colleges of Catalonia and which is explained by the president of the Official College of Doctors of Girona (COMG) and the Council of Medical Colleges of Catalonia (CCMC), Josep Vilaplanaa Medical Writing.
Vilaplana assures that the single university district “penalizes” Catalonia due to the variability of students’ grades between autonomous communities following completing Baccalaureate. While the percentage of students who obtain outstanding in Spain stands at 20.5 percentin Catalonia it is 13.3 percentonly ahead of the Balearic Islands, according to a report by the Observatory of the University System. A problem also alerted by the president of the Official College of Doctors of Tarragona (COMT), Sergi Boadawho does not believe that the students of Catalonia “be more stupid” than those of the rest of Spain and affirms that “we are putting them in inferior conditions”as well as the president of the College of Doctors of Barcelona (CoMB), Jaume Padróswhich denounces “inflated notes”.
The president of the COMG and CCMC asserts that students from any part of the Spanish geography, having a more advantageous selectivity grade than Catalan students, have a enough score to practically fill the faculty places of your province or autonomous community. Subsequently, those who have not accessed have a enough grade to compete for entering one of the universities with the lowest grades, such as those in Catalonia.
Access to Medicine for coupons
For all this, Vilaplana maintains that “Catalan students cannot enter medical schools in Catalonia”. Hence the proposal to put a cap of “30 or 35 percent to the single university district”while the rest of the places are reserved for residents of Catalonia, students who have taken the selectivity, they have high grades and they want to study medicine.
“They are the ones who pay for these medical schools, They must be beneficiaries of this investment. If not, students from outside, who are in all the faculties, are placed in their faculty and also They export students to others“, comments the head of the Anesthesiology and Reanimation Service at the University Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta.
The previous course, 74.6 percent of first-year medical students from the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona were from outside Cataloniawhile at the University of Lleida this percentage is between 60 and 70 percent, according to Vilaplana. In the universities of Barcelona and the University of Girona the range oscillates between 30 and 40 percent. “A percentage of students from outside Catalonia does not have to be harmful, but that’s not fair. They study here and leave,” she remarks.
Of the eight faculties of Medicine, two of which are private universities and which offer 200 places (16.6 of the total offer of places in Catalonia), “two and a half, almost three are full of students who are from outside Catalonia”, adds Vilaplana. This problem especially affects Catalonia and, in part, the Community of Madrid, according to their criteria, although to a lesser extent, because the supply of places at private universities in Medicine in this region represents 47 percent of the total territory.
What does the Government think of the single district in Medicine?
Vilaplana states that this formula has been transmitted both to the Government, through the corresponding Ministries, and to the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia. “In the Ministry of Universities no one stops to think regarding the big problems that it poses. It seems perfect to me that people move, but let’s measure“, says Vilapllana.
For its part, from the Government, as expressed by Vilaplana, through the Department of Health and the Department of Research and Universities, they view it favorably, although the times they have tried to discuss it in interterritorial forums the response has been that is out of the question. The great differences in the selectivity grades between autonomous communities are, therefore, for Vilaplana the “reason for the quotas and modulations of the single university district be more logical. Whoever wants to give high marks, let him give them; and the one who doesn’t, take the 70-30 formula“.
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