The G6-UMF University Alliance, which includes six of the country’s medical universities, including UMF Carol Davila, praises the current draft law on higher education, calling it “modern and flexible.”

According to the six medical faculties, the draft law “is capable of solving numerous problems that currently exist in higher education, both at the general level and at the level of higher medical education,” the press release states.

The main elements of progress identified in these projects, according to the G6-UMF, are:

• Strengthening university autonomy and providing the necessary additional financial dimension – The G6-UMF Alliance wants to have legal mechanisms to manage available resources in accordance with the law, but with increased flexibility and efficiency, and to develop its own development policy, which should not be artificially blocked by the state budget law own revenues received by each university.
• The flexibility of the didactic career and its opening to young graduates by removing the doctoral degree criterion for the position of university assistant – the academic career in the medical and pharmaceutical field is intertwined with the professional career of a doctor/pharmacist, a feature that currently makes it difficult to access the title of doctor, but also the parallel development of doctoral studies and residency.
• Granting universities the right to award doctorates – we believe that the G6-UMF Alliance has put in place the necessary mechanisms to take responsibility for this approach.
• A more flexible policy of retention of experienced teaching staff in the education system according to the needs of each university.

“The G6-UMF alliance particularly appreciates the fact that all the proposals it made during the development of the law on higher medical education were adopted, reflecting, after several debates, the position of the main universities that train doctors and pharmacists”also said in the statement.

Last but not least, the organization also deals with the issue of higher education funding, which should not be decided only through the prism of the number of students that are in a university or through the prism of the quality of a leading university.

“We believe that we should value not only the legality, but also the efficiency of the way public funds are spent and maintain a proper balance between professions that benefit society indirectly, in the long term, and those that bring immediate added value. , both categories are equally important. The high employment rate of graduates of G6-UMF Alliance universities, over 98%, in our opinion, justifies differential funding at least as much as other quantitative arguments. On the other hand, the costs of education in the medical and pharmaceutical field (due to the specifics of the organization of training in small groups, specific infrastructure and the constant need for modern technologies, etc.) are significantly higher compared to most training programs. “representatives of the G6-UMF also claim.

In conclusion, the G6-UMF Alliance declares its support for the draft law, which it calls “modern and flexible”.

The G6-UMF University Alliance Association consists of: “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Craiova, “Grigore T” Popa” University of Iasi, The University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology “George Emil Palade” from Tirgu Mures and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babes” from Timisoara represent an important part of the Romanian academic environment, studying in 6 universities of traditional medicine and pharmacy, the number of 51,599 students. Of these, 10,725 are foreign students, a figure that reflects the international dimension of the universities, given that in Romania, the majority of foreign students, coming from more than 70 countries, study in medical and pharmaceutical study programs.

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