Paying medical students assigned to Minsk, budget students - to Salihorsk

"They assign me to Salihorsk regardless of my high grades. They take a paying student with much lower grades to one of the best places in Minsk", - a student of the medical-prophylactic faculty of the State medical University Zhenya tells Euroradio. 

Minsker Zhenya will go to work as a doctor-hygienist at some 130 kilometers away from her house. A paying student will work in Minsk. Euroradio found out that nearly all paying students wished to get assignment this year, at this faculty.  And they got...the best places!

"They saved the places for paying students. They provided them an opportunity to choose. They only needed to file an application that they wanted to be assigned, and they were also explained that they still can refuse anytime", - student Zhenya continues. 

A student of the medical-prophylactic faculty Tatsyana will go to Kamyanets under assignment. This is 110 kilometers away from her house.  

"They assigned me to Kamyanets. I am from Belaazersk. They did not ask me whether I agree with this", - Tatsyana says.

The students of the medical-prophylactic faculty assure: half of the graduates are dissatisfied with their assignment.

The Dean's office of the faculty admits that paying students get the best places:

"Paying students have more rights that their opinion will be taken into account during assignment. As for the students whose education is paid by the state budget, they are assigned depending on demand for specialists at each specific moment".  

However, representatives of the personnel department in the Ministry of Health refuted this. "Those who have better grades receive better places". They also advised to appeal to the Ministry if there are violations in the assignment procedure.

Besides, the price for education at the medical prophylactic faculty is 7,5 million roubles in the years 2011/2012. This is a good price for assignment.

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