The Lehendakari, Íñigo Urkullu, in a meeting with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
The Basque government does not give up completing the transfer of homologation of titles university students of Medicine and Nursing in the current legislature, which must call elections before 2024. As explained to Redacción Médica by sources from the Executive branch led by Íñigo Urkullu: “With political will, it can be done in a short time”. And it is that according to these same sources, it was in October 2020 when both governments agreed to a calendar of pending transfers that, as of January 2023, has largely not been met.
The homologation of titles and foreign studies in university education, according to the aforementioned calendar, is the pending transfer number 25. Negotiated with the Ministry of Universities directed by Joan Subirats, the works should have started in April 2021concluding in October of the same year. “There are no excuses”sources from the Lehendakaritza have an impact in this sense, who are committed to a negotiation even in the next electoral period.
It was in December 2018 when Pedro Sánchez and Íñigo Urkullu agreed that the aforementioned transferimportant for the Basque Country to expedite the homologation of degrees in Medicine and Nursing in a context of deficit of health professionals, got going. A novelty, since it would be the first autonomous community with this capacity, which would have national significance.
A medical approval valid throughout Spain
As explained by sources at the time Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, said validation will be valid for the entire Spanish territory, “given the market unit”. Something that would break the board of deadlines, which in some cases can be extended up to two years (according to some affected), although the regulations say that the process should not exceed six months.
The new homologation model proposed by the Basque Country based on the transfer agreements agreed by both governments already raised blisters among professional groups when it began to negotiate in 2018.
Since the Collegiate Medical Organization (OMC) proposed the hypothesis that they assume the competence because “there is only one professional organization system and because the common certification of professional studies and licenses is essential for the credibility of titles, diplomas and certificates”. In addition, “it is in everyone’s interest that, as there is a single space for professional practice, it also maintains a single framework for qualifications and homologation”.
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