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Parents of students have contacted the dean of the Faculty of Health in Toulouse to contest the evaluations of candidates for the medical competition, based on their field. The Faculty of Health does not wish to comment on this controversial subject.
The reform of health studies, which allow students to prepare for access to medicine, midwifery, dentistry, pharmacy and physiotherapy (MMOPK) in a maximum of two years, has not really resolved the problem of admission for many of them.
In Toulouse, several parents of students in the LAS (health access license) course, who intend to file a legal appeal, denounce a “lack of harmonization” in the evaluation of students based on the minor they have chosen in addition to their medical courses (major). The results are in and some are looking gloomy.
“They can no longer represent themselves for life…”
“My daughter chose a minor in law, she has an average of 14.7 and 13.7 in her major, she is eligible for the oral exam, but 50% of law students were deferred from the MMOPK competition, it’s is over for them, they can no longer represent themselves for life”, explains this student’s father, Benoît, worried about his daughter who, like hundreds of candidates each year, crams at least 16 hours a day for two years, cut off of the world.
They write to the dean of the faculty
“Clarifications” have been requested by the parents of students from the dean of the faculty of medicine, which today includes the Purpan and Rangueil sites and the pharmacy and dentistry faculties, but they remain unanswered even though the results are in. In pure medicine, a little over 200 students (106 places in LAS2) are admitted each year to Toulouse. Places are expensive.
“It is not the method of smoothing out grades that is in question, but the harmonization that we believe should be reviewed by the Faculty of Health between the different streams,” explain the parents who list their observations:
“Harmonization of grades between courses”
“Indeed, it is common ground that the multiple LAS (2 in this case) are not evaluated using the same method during the year nor with the same degree of difficulty in the expected, simply not being of the same disciplines […]”. Disgruntled parents believe that LAS students who opted for sociology as a minor “seem to have performed particularly well and collectively. But if it turned out that UT2 [université Jean Jaurès, NDLR] “evaluated its students very flexibly, as a result they are better ranked than students in other fields.”
On the part of the Faculty of Health, contacted yesterday by La Dépêche, it was specified that “there will be no communication” but simply assured that “the choices are not made to the detriment of one or the other students”.
