HIGHER EDUCATION IN ROMANIA-MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Q: Are s111 me4ical schools in Rumania state controlled?
A: Yes, they are state owns,_, tint. controlled.
Q: Are the requirements for entrance, the curricula and requirements for
graduationnlstandardized in all medical schools?
A: Yes, they are standardized throughout h>`smania.
3? Q: What are the requirements for entrance into a medical school?
A: Four years of elementary education; completion of eight years of lyceum
(high school and pre-medical) with a passing grade in state administered
examinations Sufficient to earn a baccalaureate degree either in the arts
or the sciences; and a panning grade in a competitive examiniation for
enltrance into the medical school. The percentage of failures in this
latter examination about thirty ? per cent.
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4. Q: D61 poli.alfactors -play a:~y part in the selection of students for medi-
cal training?
A: Given equal grades, the authorities will prefer the sons of laborers and
peasants to all other candidates. This is a consequence of the Communist
administration.
5. Q: Could you scribe the c'a ricultm of courses required to be taken to qua-
lify for a degree in ^2dicine?
A: The medical course requires six years of study. The first three years
are given ovsr to the theoz^tical sciences and constitute the pre-clini-
cal years. The following courses are requisite:
Anatomy 2 years Histology 2 yearn
Physiology % years Biochemistry 1 year
General Bacteriology 2 years
Chemistry 1 year Pathology 1 year
Physics 1 yea
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The second three years are clinical years. The following courses
are requisite:
internal Medicine
Pharmacology
Surgery
Obstetrics and Gyneco-
logy
Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat
3 years Dermatology 1 year
1 year Physiology 1 year
3 Years ... 1.;;._ .
atry 1 1 year
2 years Urology 1. y'ar
6. Q: What are the requirements for graduation?
A: A student is required to pass each of the courses listed above with
a grade of six or better. Six would be the egkaivalart of s C under
the US, school system. Examinations are written and oral rr oral
only. In addition, the student must pass a practical examination
in all of the clinical courses. Upon successful co,;tletion of all
the courann with the proper pe,ssing grade, the' student, prior to
1946, became- an "Absolvont in Medicine". As such he-qualified to
prepare a pelf-selected thesis upon which he wprked for several
months. When completed the thesis was defended before -a board
composed of the medical school's faculty. If suceesafuly defended
the student then received his Diploma awarding him the degree of
Doctor of Medicine and Surgery::The thesis requirement was drop-
ped in 1946. 1
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Would the student then be required to pass a s'''ecial exr.riination
to qualify for the practice of medicine in Rujanja?
A: No. Since all school:; are Jtste owned and con rolieu, the receipt
of a degree and diploma i, tantamount to a li:nc'- to practice.
When the Diplona 1? -?