Crisis in medical faculties: what the Ministry of Higher Education is proposing

It took ten months of standoff and a change of minister for the tension to drop, and for dialogue to take place between medical students and the Department of Higher Education, in which Azzeddine El Midaoui replaced Abdellatif Miraoui, as minister.

Thus, the Ministry of Higher Education has just formulated a new proposal, which seems to attract the support of students, regarding the duration of medical studies, indicates the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia in its edition of Wednesday, November 6.

The supervisory ministry therefore proposes that the 2022-2023 promotion, and all those preceding it, remain at seven years of training, and that the reform reducing this duration to six years be applicable to the following ones.

All promotions dating from before publication in 2023, reported in the Official Bulletin of the ministerial decree, imposing this “reform», will thus continue their course according to the old model.

Questioned by the daily, the National Commission of Students in Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, which brings together students protesting against this reform, speaks of a “proposition positive».

However, the Commission still says “wait for new proposals, particularly concerning the students of the first year, i.e. the 2023-2024 class, whose fate between the old and new formula remains to be decided».

This proposal will be added to a battery of concessions made by the supervisory ministry, “regarding students’ grievances», Explains the daily.

Thus, the sanctions imposed against students who participated in the protest movements will be lifted, announces Al Ahdath Al Maghribiaaccording to which “an increase in the amounts of scholarships awarded to medical students was also recorded. Ditto for the reform of the third cycle of medical studies».

The daily also relays the fact that “during this time, the parents and families of the students are also mobilizing, and calling on the students to return to their faculties and their studies, a year having already been lost».