For the forth year in a row, Iran’s Health Minister Attends TUMS to Talk with Students, to Discuss Their Points

For the forth year in a row, Iran’s Health Minister Attends TUMS to Talk with Students, to Discuss Their Points
Date: 10/5/2008

TUMSPR News: At the opening days of the new educational year, Dr. Lankarani participated in the gathering of TUMS students to openly discuss their points and problems on Sunday August 20, 2008.

For the forth year in a row, the health minister participated in a gathering held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) to discuss questions put forward by the students.

The authorities present at the session were: Dr. Larijani, TUMS’ chancellor, Dr. Ein-o-Allahi, the deputy for Education and students affairs at the Health Ministry, Dr. Masdjedi the director general for cultural issues and welfare of the Health Ministry, deans of TUMS faculties, vice-chancellors, faculty members and a full vibrant Hall of students.

The Minister in response to the questions on the state’s universities policy to select students among the native participants of universities this year, said in 30 provinces for eight fields at associate and master’s degrees such as environmental and occupational health, the above decision had been true but not for medicine, dentistry or pharmacy to relieve the students for not overproducing professionals in these fields.

On interns and residents salary, the minister said that the money was more of a monetary bonus and not salary, nevertheless he emphasized that the figures had been increased 2.5 times since 2005.

He added that during the last three years, 43000 have been employed by the ministry, and he called this a revolution, with up to 70 to 50 percent native employments in different provinces.

He believed the unemployment rate among medical sciences graduates were lower compared to the general unemployment rate but he said there were serious challenges regarding midwifery with the highest unemployment rate due to disproportionate graduates from some non-state run universities in the country. He also noted the move at the ministry to minimize wards with lowest educational benefits and change them to clinical wards only or for more use to fellow students.

On the 10% increase in the number of students this year, Dr. Lankarani said in the fields that the state feels necessary to increase the number of students based on need assessment and future needs estimates this had happened and these measures were under control and constant scientific scrutiny and assessment; nothing to worry about.

On the International branches of universities regarding fields of medicine he said, entrance to these universities had been based on the notional entrance exam results with no burden on mother universities resources – faculty members or practice fields.

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