Of the 3,100 enrolled medical students at the UNLP’s School of Medicine this year to take the term-time assessments, a whopping 98 percent failed their introductory courses in Biology, Anatomy and Histology (microanatomy). “The Medical School is not made of rubber. ‘Bad preparation, no drive’Meanwhile, the dean of the UNLP School of Medicine Ana Errecalde said that the low pass rates were a direct result of insufficient preparation in secondary schools for prospective medical students. Errecalde identified as a key cause of the results the “bad preparation of students leaving secondary (school), who they are not given incentives to study and read, we noticed that they were really lost this year.”She also said that a lack of motiviation from new students arriving from secondary school had exacerbated the situation in tandem with bad preparation. We are asking universities that, instead of adding extra courses and exams, they help at the secondary level, interact with secondary (education) to strengthen education quality before university,” Bullrich told Radio La Red.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 14, 2016 02:48 UTC