Italy: Doctors’ leaders criticise scrapping of medical school entrance exam

Plans to allow medical schools in Italy to take in unlimited numbers of students from next year have led to heated debate in the country which has had a strict entrance exam policy since 1997.New rules for accessing medical schools, which were passed by the Italian senate on 24 April, will allow anyone to enrol for at least a semester, after which they will progress if they attain satisfactory academic credits, although few details have been released.The new process will end the entrance system run by the Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR) which decided the number of medical school places every year. In 2023 there were 20 000 places for 79 000 applicants.The move to expand medical school places has been welcomed by politicians who see it as a solution to Italy’s doctor shortage, which worsened during the pandemic.1 Anaao Assomed, Italy’s biggest trade union for doctors, and the…
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