on Friday, there will be movement in medicine for the classes / file
It seems the “world upside down” but as it happened before the election of the dean in April (with such intensity that it conditioned that act of university institutional life), in the UNLP Faculty of Medicine the student body will once again claim for a greater load hours of face-to-face classes for those who are taking a career in which, lately, the bochazos and complaints about the quality of the courses have been reproduced.
The move was called for this Friday from one of the student groups, Unite, which had a long period at the head of the representation of the faculty, until a few years ago.
As in the Asian giant, which exported the protest through production, the claim will be exposed in the access sector to the headquarters of 60 and 120, with a series of public activities, in cases, referring to the formation for which they are demonstrating discomfort.
From 10 in the morning there will be a fair of entrepreneurs and in the afternoon, from 15, they will give courses on “suture and venipuncture”; talks on “popular medicine, contraceptives, labor and display of heart.” When the sun goes down, everything will loosen up in academic terms: from 20 there will be a trick tournament and from 22 musical bands and a popular pot.
The slogan is to achieve “full attendance, intensive courses” and other claims for scholarships, delivery of backpacks, daycare for students, increase in the educational ticket. They even ask for “more security” in the El Dique area, where the former Naval hospital is located.
The technological resource has been extended in the last two years, after being imposed by the need for isolation in the context of the pandemic. At the beginning of this year, when the rest of the faculties resumed the “pre-pandemic” rhythm in Medicine, a return to the classrooms was demanded and, in particular, to the hospital wards, where practical activities with patients are carried out, a instance considered crucial in training.
In those days, the student caucus in the academic council imposed attention to that claim as a condition to sit down to vote in the session where, finally, Juan Basualdo Farjat was re-elected. In order for there to be a quorum, he had to sign a list of conditions containing something that is going to be claimed tomorrow.
After the election, the claims intensified again along with the spread of several bad results in midterm exams in first and fourth year subjects. The students agree in complaining against virtual classes and exams, which consist of connecting with teachers through a screen, by videoconference and taking on a platform. They denounced in recent months that, in cases, they were disapproved for not being able to connect due to technical difficulties.
The controversy unfolds in a license plate recharge scenario. From 2015 to now, the faculty multiplied by ten the number of students, reaching approximately 33,000.
It is argued that this increase after the cancellation of the qualifying exam was not accompanied by teachers and classrooms.
Thus, from the Unite group they pointed out a few weeks ago that 95% of those enrolled in the race do not reach the last year of the course.
In those days, only two of almost fifty students had passed a midterm in Infectious Diseases.