Radiology, endocrinology, cardiology, plastic surgery or dermatology. These are the specializations preferred by Medicine students, declared, on Sunday, rector Viorel Jinga.
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“In recent years, we can see a tendency to choose radiology, endocrinology, cardiology, plastic surgery or dermatology, specialties that allow many to have practice activities, to come to the private sector as well, which has developed a lot in the last period”. the official pointed out.
“They choose surgeries less and especially major surgeries, such as cardio-vascular surgery, thoracic surgery and even general surgery, as well as urology, which was chosen with high averages before. Recently, already, this specialty is at the bottom of the ranking“, the rector said.
It could raise taxes
The fees for foreign students at the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest could increase. and to the Hungarians, over 10,000 euros”, explained the rector of UMF “Carol Davila”, Viorel Jinga.
“It is possible, in the following years, that we will also increase the tax (…). I saw, for example, at Titu Maiorescu, that it goes for 10,000 – 11,000 euros. Those from the private sector have already greatly increased the fee for international students. Within the framework of G6, the Association of Pharmacy Universities in Romania, which brings together the six large universities – Iași, Bucharest, Timişoara, Craiova, Cluj and Târgu-Mureş – we set these fees together, in order to standardize them at country level, fees for international students . We have already started admissions on a case-by-case basis for these international students and we already have three in place, so it is still a big draw for overseas students“, Jinga specified.
He added that Romanian doctors who choose to leave the country “probably” do so because they want to practice in university centers.
“Those who leave do so for the quality, probably, of the environment in which they will work in the future or, perhaps, many want to be in university centers. The density of doctors in university centers is very high. They can no longer find jobs here, they don’t want to go to the cities, even to the county capitals, around Bucharest, sometimes they prefer to go abroad. Through PNRR and through other ways in which the county hospitals obtained a lot of equipment, I believe that, in two or three years, it will be possible to work at the county hospitals under the same conditions as in a university hospital (…). Things will change for the better, the salaries are, however, quite good. After the seven years of college, after the five years of specialization – residents also have very good salaries -, they reach 6,000 – 7,000 lei net, and a specialist doctor has around 10,000 lei“, he pointed out.
Admission to Medicine
Today, the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMFCD) in Bucharest is organizing the entrance exam, for which 4,204 candidates have registered. More than half of them, 2,743, compete for the 737 places funded by the budget and 250 with fees put up for competition at the Faculty of Medicine.
Candidates for Medicine received 100 questions with answers in the form of grids in both Biology and Chemistry or Physics, the last two mentioned subjects being optional. The solving time was 2 and a half hours according to the competition rules and the grids were corrected in the presence of the candidates.
