ULL Medicine will be able to fill the 100 teaching positions that were at risk of continuing

After two years without contact, the mixed commission between the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Canarian Health Service (SCS) met yesterday, which led to the authorization to fill «certain positions. We had almost a hundred pending, especially associate and linked professors. Now we have carte blanche to proceed with the call process,” explained the rector of the ULL, Francisco García, in a telephone conversation.

In recent days, former students of the Faculty of Medicine and the College of Physicians of Santa Cruz de Tenerife had publicly expressed their fear about the continuity of medical studies at the ULL due to the lack of teaching staff. García remembers that, in addition to the positions, they did not have a “remuneration supplement” that would make teaching attractive.. «It seems that finally today [por ayer] We can talk about good news. “We have activated solutions to these problems on the horizon,” he added.

This “good news” means that The ULL will also be able to join the universities that since last year have expanded the number of places in Medicine to train more specialists due to the lack of these in the short term in Spain. In fact, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria already expanded the Medicine degree from 135 to 150 places last year, an expansion that will continue next year according to the rector, Lluís Serra.

«This is already starting to make it viable.. If everything goes as it should, we will begin to have the necessary teaching staff to teach the different subjects and consider other scenarios.

Asked about the cause of this problem, given that the ULPGC only recognizes difficulties in hiring teachers in the Nursing degree in Lanzarote, where they have already applied a new plan for the next course, García said he did not know why the mixed commission had not met in two years. “The important thing is that there is already a dialogue, a fluid dialogue with the SCS and that is the best news” because it puts them on the path to a solution, explained the rector of the ULL.