The Ministry of Universities has expanded to 62 fields of knowledge to which the university teaching bodies must register once the Royal Decree (RD) that will regulate the academic performance of the teaching staff is approved. Among these 62 branches, Universities have introduced within the framework of the Surgery, Dentistry and Podiatry, so from now on these three degrees will be framed within the same field of knowledge. A situation that has aroused the discomfort of doctors considering that the ministry of Joan Subirats is “discrediting” by associating them with a degree such as Podiatry that requires fewer credits and training hours than that of Surgery and Dentistry.
According to the RD to which you have had access Medical Writing, University professors of Surgery must share a branch with dentists and podiatrists. This situation, as denounced by the doctors, will cause that in the opposition courts to apply for a position as Professor of Surgery they may be chaired by podiatrists who “they are unaware of the objective criteria that must be applied in such a complex selection process”. This rule, they say, It would affect all those professionals licensed in Medicine and Surgery who are part of or want to be a university professor.
The purpose of this standard, as explained by the Ministry of Universities, is to specify the areas of knowledge to which all university teaching posts must necessarily be assigned for the purposes of their description in the list of jobs or templates of civil servant teaching staff and labor teaching staff. That is to say, under this umbrella the professors of Surgery in the faculties of Medicine will share the field of study with Dentistry and Podiatry.
The RD is currently in public consultation and from the National Conference of Deans of Medicine They advance to this newspaper that they are going to study the possibility of presenting allegations so that the field of Surgery continues to be unitary and stands out from the branch of Podiatry. In the case of Dentistry, sources from the Conference clarify that this degree shares the same training criteria as Surgery, so they can share space. Moreover, Medicine and Dentistry go hand in hand in the field of study of the bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Precisely, dentists are also positioning themselves against the fact that there are podiatrists in the courts that decide on the hiring of university teaching staff. For this reason, sources from the Conference of Deans of Dentistry are also going to present allegations against this RD.
Medicine remains an exclusive field
In the same DR project and between the 62 areas of knowledgeMedicine will continue to be the only branch of knowledge so that teachers in this area can enroll in it.
Medicine is accompanied by other Health Science degrees, such as Nursing or Pharmacy. Biomedical Sciences is also released in this section.
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