The NGO Aula Abierta indicated in a report that at least 16 postgraduate courses from the Faculty of Medicine were stopped being taught at the UCV due to the lack of students and that the dropout rate from 2016 to September 2022 stood at 68%.
Text: Mairen Dona López / the whistle
The Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) denied this Monday, January 9, that several of its postgraduate programs closed definitively due to lack of students, as reported by the non-governmental organization open classroom in your report Health university students at risk: violations of academic freedom and quality education.
According to a statement signed by Dr. Emigdio Balda, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, the number of postgraduate graduates in 2022 in two cohorts was 298. Likewise, between the years 2015-2022, 3,706 professionals graduated for specialties, master’s degrees and PhDs.
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He specified that by December 2022 the number of students enrolled in the different medical postgraduate courses was 1,587. While the number of applicants who registered in the first call (Competition 2022-Ingress 2023) was 1,384.
In the document issued this Monday, January 9, they also indicate that the student enrollment of undergraduate active until December 2022 at the Luis Razetti School of Medicine, there were 1,200 students and at the José María Vargas School of Medicine, 700 students.
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On December 31, Aula Abierta indicated that in alliance with Radio Faith and Joy published a report carried out by the organization on the state of the medical schools and postgraduate courses in the country. In addition to the serious circumstances faced by health students in Venezuela.
In an alliance with Aula Abierta, @radiofeyalegria disseminates data from a report made by this organization on the critical state of the medical schools and postgraduate courses in the country. #UniversityRights https://t.co/EZoHUcHzRI
— Open Classroom (@AulaAbiertaVE) December 31, 2022
In the investigation they managed to document figures on student desertion, as well as professors. Also the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, which prevents the practice of professionals.
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