Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping final exams

[babylonsister]

Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping final exams
By Justine Coleman - 03/18/20 09:51 AM EDT


Italy plans to rush 10,000 student doctors set to graduate this year into service without taking the final exams typically required beforehand amid the coronavirus outbreak.

University Minister Gaetano Manfredi said the government is permitting this year’s student doctor graduates to work about eight to nine months early and is waiving the medical exams as the coronavirus pummels the country, Reuters reported.

"This means immediately releasing into the National Health System the energy of about 10,000 doctors, which is fundamental to dealing with the shortage that our country is suffering," he said in a statement obtained by Reuters

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The student doctors would be sent to work in general practitioners’ clinics and nursing homes, freeing up other doctors to head to the overflowed hospitals.

Italy’s death toll increased to 2,503 people in the past 24 hours, with the number of cases jumping to 31,506 from 27,980, the Civil Protection Agency said, according to Reuters. The European country is suffering the largest amount of cases and deaths outside of China, where the virus is believed to have originated.

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[underpants]

1. Great idea

All hands on deck

[MissB]

2. That's one way to do it!

Smart.

I assume nursing schools are in on that too.

[The Magistrate]

3. An Heroic Response, Ma'am

The best face of their professional vocation.

[babylonsister]

4. Yes, grand idea!

And again, you are a sight for sore eyes, Sir.