March 11, 2022 – 12:03
They stated that there were points in the entrance exam that had not been dictated and that of the 750 applicants, none could pass.
Medicine students held a protest today at the doors of the Unsa denouncing irregularities in the exams for admission to the Medicine career. With posters and drums they made their claim heard.
“We march against the irregularities presented in the course and evaluation for admission to medicine”, they expressed. They stated that there were points in the last exams that had not been dictated. The photograph of the claims was sent through El Tribuno WhatsApp, the students also expressed that of the 6,000 students who answered the questionnaire, only 750 remained to take the partial and that none remained of that total. “We want to study, we don’t want injustices.”
Some 6,000 students signed up to study medicine at the National University of Salta (UNSa) this year. It is the most chosen career, although only 3,700 students take the classes.
In principle, only 4,800 students had completed all the virtual procedures for pre-registration, which closed on December 26, 2021. Classes began in February.
During this last month the students marked a series of inconveniences when registering. At the end of February, students said there was a massive pre-registration and then a massive purge. They said that in four weeks they had to present eight colloquiums and that there were “errors” in the virtual platform that prevented them from responding.
They assure that they claimed and even spoke with an authority. From the university they had pointed out that many of the applicants had done the initial process wrong, but that they would be allowed to complete it. After a large part of the pre-registered were left out, the UNSa extended the pre-registration for the second time until March 6.