The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, declared that the specialized exam will be organized on time, that is, in the months of February-March and not in November-December, as was speculated. Rogobete stated that he took this decision considering the large number of candidates who passed this exam in the previous session.
“First of all, I want to explain a little technically what the specialized exam means. The Ministry of Health has only one role, namely the administrative and legislative one. The Ministry of Health does not make the subjects, the Ministry of Health does not make the scales, the Ministry of Health does not correct. The universities, the G6 Alliance were involved in the preparation of the subjects and the correction and so on, just to understand a little how things are. There will not be a new specialized exam in November or December. We will organize the specialized exam on time, i.e. in February-March of this year, as it is usually planned, where those who did not pass can surely register for the exam again”, said Alexandru Rogobete, on Wednesday evening, on Medika TV, according to News.ro.
The Minister of Health noted that there was an increased pass rate for this exam.
“I want to congratulate the over 55-57% who passed the specialty exam, especially in cardiology. I can’t help but notice that there is still a high pass rate. Not 80-90% as some people might have expected, but it’s still a high rate. And for the other more unpleasant situations I come up with a solution, I say, with common sense and which will encourage the young generation. I don’t want to organize another session now, for that I don’t think they could learn or carry out their work in two months or one month. That’s why I want to give them more time to deepen their studies, to resume the subject, please, as they wish. But, now we are looking for a legislative measure by which those who did not pass the specialized exam will be paid”, declared Rogobete.
Alexandru Rogobete stated that he cannot allow doctors to remain unemployed after 5 years of residency.
“At the level of resident doctors, it would be good for them to stay in the clinic, in the clinic where they were residents, even if they didn’t pass the competition, to stay there, to continue practicing with the status of resident doctor, with a salary, and in March another chance for the specialty exam. I cannot agree that doctors remain unemployed after 5 years of residency. And then, for me, it would have been easiest to do another session in December. But it was a populist gesture. It was not a mechanism for solving the problem, a correct mechanism for solving the problem, if the passability rate was 10% or 5% or 1 out of 10, then I was thinking that it was almost 60%. More than half of them took those subjects, regardless of what problems they had or not. And then, I come up with this solution, which I think is better than populism, namely to stay employed with the status of a resident doctor, paid until the next specialized exam session”, added Alexandru Rogobete.
