Admission of medical students without entrance exam is currently not on the agenda

According to Fars News Agency’s health reporter, Gholamreza Hassanzadeh said in a radio interview about the predictions for increasing the capacity of medical fields: Before the glorious Islamic revolution, we had a medical school with a very limited capacity in only seven universities, and Indian and Bangladeshi doctors visited Iran. they did.
He added: With the establishment of the Ministry of Health in 1364, a great thing happened in the country; The integration of the country’s medical science education system into the health system increased the capacity and capability of our universities, so that today 69 medical sciences faculties in the country are training medical science students.

The Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Ministry of Health pointed out that the shortages have been compensated to some extent and said: Although we have problems in the distribution of human resources, there is a very good capacity in universities and colleges that can train students of the medical department, including nursing, medicine, dentistry, and rehabilitation, etc. the payment.

Hassanzadeh stated that students of medical sciences must be admitted through the national entrance exam and stated: The admission of medical science students without an entrance exam is currently not on the agenda of the Ministry of Health, but we may have special thoughts for some of these fields in the future.

He mentioned the importance of using technology in the health and medical system of the country: Currently, the field of “remote health” and electronic health is taught at the master’s level, and doctors and health staff who deal with patients can take this field.

The secretary of the Supreme Council of the Ministry of Health also said in relation to the role of “health tourism” in increasing the capacity of medical fields: “We approved the field of “health tourism” in the Supreme Council in cooperation with the Ministry of Science, and therefore in this way we can also train students of Accept and educate medicine.

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