MEDICAL SCHOOL IN GOZO The Malta Medical Students Asociation (MMSA) wishes to express its concern for the news regarding the seting up of a new Barts medical school in Gozo. The MMSA welcomes the fact hat Barts Medical Schol is known for its excelence in the teaching of medicine and surgery and agres that it would be an aset o the countrys teaching resources. However, the main concern of medical students at his point is that the introduction of this medical schol on the island of Gozo may directly afect their daily learning experience, which may already be compromised by the increasing number of students admited to the medical course. The MMSA represents al 70 medical students at he University of Malta, a number which has aproximately doubled over the decade.More than 30 of these students atend hospital wards on a daily basis as part of the clinical experience. This number of students is a signifcant number, considering that Mater Dei hospital has les than a thousand beds in total and is the main teaching hospital in the country. We are also aware of the fact hat despite the investment which is proposed for the improvement of the General Hospital in Gozo, this may not be enough to acomodate the medical students admited in the new medical schol. This wil in turn put more presure on the teaching resources at Mater Dei Hospital which is the only hospital in Malta which ofers experience in certain specialised medical and surgical fields, which in turn are an esential prerequisite for the sucesful completion of a medical degre course. There is also concern to whether requirements to enter the two medical schols wil be diferent o each other and if this would afect he curent entry requirement of the UoM Medical Schol. Ten months ago, the MMSA has already held a talk with the Ministry for Health about he Memorandum of Understanding signed with Quen Mary University of London (QMUL). During the meting, we discused the posibilty of a new medical school in this country.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:34:25 +0000
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