More places in medschool in Italy than in the United States. A catastrophe for European medstudents?
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i'm sharing this discussion in Italian to highlight just how serious the situation in Italy is: the Minister of Education (who has been rapidly increasing the number of places in medschool in the last 3 years) has just announced 27,000 places in medical school, which will increase to 30,000 next year, almost three times the usual 8,000-9,000 places.
Now there are more places in Medschool in Italy than United States!
More or less the same of Germany+France+Spain.
But the residency places are almost 1/3rd. So only 30% of those doctors will find a residency spot in Italy. Many others will have to go to other European countries.
I’m sharing this because the resulting oversupply of Italian medical graduates will inevitably spill over into the rest of Europe, as the number of residency/specialty training positions is much, much lower.
The European Union should intervene, otherwise it will be a big problem for all the neighboring countries, particularly Germany, Austria and Spain.