In addition, 150 students and students of medicine will receive medical faculty in Slovakia from the next academic year. It is a first step in fulfilling the commitment of the Slovak Government, to provide the order of the state to increase the number of students from Slovakia in selected study programmes and fields of higher education.
The increase in the number of medicians is the result of a joint approach between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and representatives of higher education institutions. At the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava it will be possible to accept 45 more medics, at the University of Jessenio Medical University in Martin 30 more candidates. At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, there will be 45 new extra doctors and 30 additional students at the Slovak Medical University.
In view of the fact that the conditions for admission procedures are already published, this agreement still has to be approved by the academic boards of the various schools, said Minister Drucker. The Ministry of Education has allocated money in the budget for this year to fulfill the order of the state for a higher number of students totalling 1.3 million euros. At the same time, the resort has prepared additional funds (in particular the Euro funds) to improve the quality of teaching and medical skills, for example by building simulation centres. We realize this is only the first step. However, it obliges us to take further measures to improve both the education and the premises where future doctors and doctors are being prepared, and Minister Drucker added.
We all know very well how the Slovak health system suffers from lack of personnel. If the state does not resolve the situation, the problem will only worsen in the coming years. I therefore welcome this cooperation, and I appreciate that we are gradually succeeding in fulfilling the Programme Statement of the Government of the Slovak Republic. I would also like to call on the students themselves, who are considering a career in the health sector and who will be sending their applications to higher education in the coming days, so that they do not hesitate to decide on this unique mission. said Minister of Health Zuzana Dolink.
In the second phase, a long-term and financially sustainable solution will be agreed in the framework of the newly established inter-ministerial working group on improving health education for years to come. For example, one suggestion is that students of the 6th grade can work as part of the practice in district hospitals in their places of residence.