“The vision of medical education in Mexico must change”sentenced the medical surgeon and health policy analyst, Xavier Tello in the space of “That’s the way things are” with Gabriela Warkentin and Javier Riscowhere he asked “Let’s not use students as the workforce that the authorities don’t want to pay.”
After the murder of medical intern Erick Andrade Ramírez, student of the Autonomous University of Durango, Tello expressed his concern, stating that, “Medical students work in a kind of modern slavery for six days, 24 hours a day, without logistical support and left to their own devices by the health authorities.”
He pointed out that “social service has been romanticized and is now inefficient and anachronistic,” and stressed that “Doctors are the only professionals who work like this for a scholarship of 3,000 to 5,000 pesos, although they do well.”
The squares, denounced “They cover themselves with students in the last year of their degree because a basic doctor would earn 28,000 pesos a month -which is a lousy salary-, per shift, so they prefer to pay a student and abandon him to his fate.”
“Stop saying that it is how the student approaches the community”, asked the doctor who He pointed out the danger in which the authorities put the life of the patient and of the students themselves. “Medical students are dying and universities are doing nothing to protect them,” warned.
Tello, advocated that the study plans of the medicine career be changed and asked “Let’s not use students as the labor force that the authorities don’t want to pay”, concluded.
