Medical school plans ‘unaffordable’
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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GooglePlans by the new government to scrap the fixed number of places at medical school will cost €1bn and there is no money to fund it, according to the hand-over document given by outgoing health minister Ab Klink to his successor Edith Schippers.
The government wants to phase out restrictions on the number of places at medical school over five years and boost the number of medical specialists by 25% by 2025.
At the moment there are 2,850 places at medical school, around half of which are allocated to the cleverest students and the rest through a lottery.
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