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Almost half the graduates from Mozambican medical faculties are unable to practice medicine because they failed the medical examination set by the Order of Doctors (OMM), according to a report in Wednesday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”.
To become a recognized doctor, it is not enough to pass a university course. The candidate must also be certified by the Order of Doctors.
241 people hoping to become doctors or dentists took the test, but only 128 (53.1 per cent) passed.
The largest contingent was the 84 graduates from the medical faculty at the country’s oldest establishment of higher education, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). 55 (65.5 per cent) of these graduates passed the certification examination, and 29 failed.
In other universities, the situation was much worse. At the Lurio University, 24 out of 30 medical graduates failed (but 14 out of 19 would be dentists passed). At the Zambezi University, 19 out of 30 medical graduates failed.
Mozambicans trained as doctors abroad must also take the certification exam. There were 23 of these candidates, and 16 of them (almost 70 per cent) passed.
Commenting on the results, the chairperson of the Order, Eugenio Zacarias, said the high failure rate could reflect the poor quality of medical training.
“We know there are many faculties without the ideal conditions for training doctors, which is an area with its own specific nature”, he said. “But we have no way of intervening, since we don’t participate in licensing these institutions”.
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