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Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko announced a “tough talk” with the heads of medical faculties.
The minister confirmed that there are plans to reduce the number of places for training future medical workers, “but not reductions in the number of state orders.”
He said this in a conversation with LB.ua.
As a reminder, in the spring the minister said that university hospitals and the requirement for 5000 students will sooner or later become a mandatory condition for medical education in Ukraine. Now he has explained this thesis.
According to Viktor Lyashko, 5 000 the education seekers at one university allows the university to be maintained and to implement new technologies there. But this is not necessarily all 5000 medical workers. These could be students from various faculties.
“This month we will have a large meeting with all rectors, specifically of medical faculties. We must discuss the role of education in the health care system 2035-2040, – says the minister. – Because if today we do not consider needs at that time, it would be very costly for us as managers. Maybe it would be better to have fewer medical universities, but those that remain should increase the number of state orders, raise the number of people who teach, to provide high-quality education. And in parallel with this, the question of medical faculties at classical universities, which are also very numerous, will be resolved.”
Currently Ukraine’s largest medical university is Kyiv’s National Medical University named after Bohomolets, with about 10 000 students. More than 5000 students are enrolled in medical universities in Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Ternopil. The rest range from 2500 to 4000.
“Universities that live only in the present do not seek potential students outside our country, and they themselves will degenerate, – adds Viktor Lyashko. – Do they expect the minister to bring them students? That should not be. If you requested financial autonomy, economic autonomy, if the minister cannot intervene in the appointment of a rector, then provide results. Let’s look at the Czech Republic. They faced a similar phase. After that they decided to attract foreign students to study. And thus they replenished the staffing. If you look at Great Britain, which we used as a model when carrying out reforms, only 30% of doctors obtained their education in Great Britain. 70% came from EU and non-EU countries. I will have a tough talk with rectors. After that I am ready to go to Serhiy Babak and Mykhailo Radutskyi and propose certain changes.”
Read the full material about the potential reduction of places for medical training in Ukraine, what may await us and why, here.
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