With next year the rules for access to the medical faculty change and the path could also start from the fourth year of high school: the minister of the University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, says this on Radio Capital.
And then he added: “From next year there will be no single entrance test for the Faculty of Medicine. There will be a path that can also begin in the fourth year of high school, where students will be able to try their hand at the test up to four times and enter the ranking with the best result “.
And then, on the shortage of doctors, Messa said that this is a serious problem to which we are trying to find a solution, but it is due to an ancient programmatic error, for which now we are trying to “increase the numbers”, both of the students who can enter graduate schools and those who can enter medical universities.
Certainly “The consequences of these reforms will not be immediate. We must also make the work of the general practitioner who works in the local areas more attractive because fewer and fewer young people want to do this job. “