Unanimity on the basic text which provides for exceeding the limited number of students in Medicine. It is a first step, the one taken today in the Senate, in the process to change the rules for access to the faculty. The decision came within the Select Committee of the Education Committee. «It was an intense job that found the maximum convergence of all the political forces», rejoices the Northern League member Roberto Marti, president of the commission. «The hateful limited number that we have known for the last 25 years will no longer exist. A commitment that the League had made during the election campaign. A clear mandate which also represented a stimulus in the decision to take on the role of chairing the commission”, continues the senator.
«We will thus offer our children the opportunity to freely enroll in the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine and to begin a path that will allow them to have time and a way to orient themselves in the university world, which constitutes a great novelty for everyone. Students will also have the opportunity to verify their vocation and demonstrate the skills acquired by studying the basic disciplines of these degree courses. Finally no longer a Russian roulette: we entrust the government with full delegation to restore a system of common sense to the country.” The new system provides that anyone can freely enroll in the first semester of Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine. «A crucial semester», explains Ella Bucalo, senator of the Brothers of Italy, «aimed at evaluating students on the basis of the profit obtained during the first scheduled exams. A semester in which students can be judged on real merit and their motivations, through a more inclusive and meritocratic system.”
In addition to Matteo Salvini, who claims the result on X, among the main promoters of overcoming the limited number is the Northern League member Luca Zaia. «It’s about time: great surgeons and doctors are selected during their studies and then compare themselves in the operating room and in the ward. Certainly not with an absurd initial barrage with cross tests”, writes the president of Veneto in a note. «How many valid healthcare professionals could we have had in our hospitals without the medical entrance test? Instead, we find ourselves with a shortage of 50 thousand doctors in Italy and 3,500 in Veneto, due to wrong choices made from above at a national level in the past. For years, faced with the difficulties in finding doctors and the decrease in young people who want to undertake this difficult profession, I have been asking for an expansion of the recruitment base, which can only pass through easier access to the Faculty of Medicine, without departure dreams and vocations via quiz. It was really time for a change of pace.”
