NewsWhore
06-21-2006, 03:10 PM
More than one thousand graduates of the nation's medical schools took the Unified General Exam (EGU) to compete in different residency programs. The highest grade was 79/100, and close to 700 of the test-takers failed to reach a passing score of 60. The chief of residents at the Salvador B. Gautier Hospital in Santo Domingo told Listin Diario reporters that the examining boards for Level One Medical Residencies have decided to do away with the old method of relying on grades as one of the criteria for selection of recent medical graduates for stints in the residency programs in the nation's hospital system. By 2014, the entire process will depend on the grades obtained in the EGU. According to Dr. Julio Cesar Castillo Vargas, this year 20% of the new residents will be chosen by their grades in the EGU and 80% will be chosen by the old method that looks at research, grades, intern programs and academic honors as the chief criteria. The examining board also decided that the 50 highest grades on the EGU would obtain direct entry into the resident programs in areas where there were four or more positions open for residents. Each year about 400 new resident positions are available in the Dominican public health system.
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