For the second day in a row, medical students at Talca University protested in the Plaza de Armas of the city, in front of the Rectory of the house of studies.
Young people demand that the nursery comply with the provisions of their academic network and be able to do face-to-face internships, as they have been studying for two years on line.
“There are third- and fourth-year students who have never examined a patient; we have lost many hours of clinical practice, Which is irrecoverable and it can be detrimental to our professional lives, ”he explained Javiera Car, president of the Center for Medical Students.
The leader indicated that since the time of the social outbreak they have not had any clinical practice and, being already in the middle of the second half of this year, still they are not sure what their process will be like now.
Car stated that Medical students are willing to use their vacation days to attend clinical internships as they understand it as necessary and indispensable for proper professional training.
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Claudio Cruzat, director of the Medicine degreeHe said “the University fully agrees with the opinion of the students of the race in the sense of the enormous relevance that has the access to clinical fields for the medical training “.
“Clinical practices are essential for students to acquire their learning: they are carried out mainly in municipal hospitals and health facilities, such as surgeries, but these practices were suspended by 100 percent by instruction of the health authority at the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020“, Explained the manager.
He has specified in addition to the University of Talca and to resume face-to-face internships for all its inmates. However, the clinical field internships of third-, fourth-, and fifth-year students — called “curricular internships” —have not yet been released and authorized by the respective care centers.
In this sense, “there is a permanent coordination of coordination, between the University and these clinical fields, for the rapid recovery of these contingents and restart these practical activities,” said Claudio Cruzat.