{"id":2281,"date":"2015-01-13T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:06:32","slug":"medical-students-with-eac-standard-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/medical-students-with-eac-standard-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical students with EAC standard norms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research has launched a new system for selecting medical laureates in the medical faculty. After the national exam, laureates will have to take another exam to be allowed to study in that faculty.<\/strong>-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pr Anastasie Gasogo: \u201cThe system concerns three Burundi Universities including the Universities of Burundi, Ngozi and Hope Africa. Each University will not exceed100 medical students.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Pr Anastasie Gasogo, Director General of High Education and Post-Professional Secondary for the Ministry of High education and Scientific Research, the new system will allow Burundi to be in conformity with other EAC partner states. \u201cWe must work in accordance with EAC standard norms. We have received a recommendation from the partner states that we should significantly reduce the number of students in the medical faculty from 300 to 100 students,\u201d says Pr Gasogo.<\/p>\n

For her, it is difficult to supervise more than 100 students in one class, and to ensure good doctors at the end of their studies. \u201cThe medical faculty is very important, we must be careful of the supervision rate\u201d, she adds.
\nShe states that the Ministry attempted to begin the new system last year but in vain due to lack of funds. \u201cIt is very expensive to organize such an activity. We have begun this year with the medical faculty, and the system will be extending to other faculties step by step,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Laureates will be tested in Mathematics, Physics, French, English, Biology and Chemistry. \u201cThe success rate for the overall new system to undertake the medical faculty will be known after the exam.\u201d
\nThere are some criteria that the candidate must fulfill before submission. \u201cThe candidate must have received at least 60% in the national exam and be aged under 35 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pr Anastasie Gasogo states that the new system is being implemented in an effort to improve the quality of doctors.
\nThe same view is shared by Dieudonn\u00e9 Nduwayezu, the Representative Delegate in the Medical faculty.
\n\u201cNow, medical students will join this faculty willingly and be passionate. Before this new system was in place, medical students were admitted to the medical faculty without approval from the faculty, only because they had obtained good results \u201d says Nduwayezu.<\/p>\n

As a result, appropriate care by doctors has sometimes been lacking. \u201cAccording to some reports, there have been doctors unable to conduct caesarean deliveries in accordance with the doctor\u2019s ethics,\u201d notes Nduwayezu.
\nNduwayezu indicates that the new system will have disadvantages as well as advantages. \u201cOn one hand, being tested twice may be seen as burdensome, but on the other hand, students are aware that any time, they must be tested and examined by their trainers and teachers,\u201d explains Nduwayezu.<\/p>\n

However, Nduwayezu worries about the commission in charge of organizing the activity. \u201cWe are concerned about whether the commission will be credible. It would be better if educational experts were included. Also, other parameters such as constitutional balance should be included as it is done in other institutions\u201d, adds Nduwayezu.
\nAll laureates who wish to study in both private as well as public universities must now pass the exam. \u201cThe system concerns the three Burundian Universities including the Universities of Burundi, Ngozi and Hope Africa. Each university should not exceed 100 medical students\u201d, concludes Pr Gasogo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research has launched a new system for selecting medical laureates in the medical faculty. After the national exam, laureates will have to take another exam to be allowed to study in that faculty.-By Diane Uwimana According to Pr Anastasie Gasogo, Director General of High Education and Post-Professional Secondary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[40,457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}