Access to medical education in Angola: the case of the Medical College of José Eduardo dos Santos University in lective 2019

Abstract

The medical course proves to be one of the most sought after in the V academic region. Objective: To characterize the candidates for the medical course at the José Eduardo dos Santos University School of Medicine in the academic year 2019. Methodology: Descriptive, quantitative documentary study, using articles published in the Mediline, Scielo and Pubmed and access to databases. registration of candidates for a better understanding of the phenomenon under study. Results: The sample is made up of 1989 candidates for the entrance exam in the academic year 2019. The MD is 21.08 and (SD = 2.4) the majority is female 1087 (54.7%). 1988 (99.9%) reported being single, due to their working conditions, 1986 (99.8%) reported being unemployed, the 20-23 age group of 1284 (64.6%) followed by 24 -26 with 309 (15.5%). The course with the largest number of candidates was general nursing 1025 (51.6%) and then the Physical and Biological Sciences 744 (37.4%). The province with the largest number of candidates was Huambo 1490 (74.9%) followedby Bié 123 (6.2%) and Moxico 101 (5.1%). Regarding the year it was found that 934 (46.96%) completed high school in 2018 and 589 (29.61) in 2017. Regarding the result obtained in the exam, we found that 419 (20.9%) obtained 0 -5 values and 1304 (65.6%) of 6-10 values and 93 (4.2%) obtained from 11-15 values. Regarding the number of attempts to join we found that 1855 (93.3) said they tried twice, 122 (6.1%) four times and 12 (0.6%) said they tried up to seven times. Of these, only 70 (3.52) were admitted as there were only 70 vacanciesdefined as claususnumberand 1919 (96.48) were not admitted. Final considerations: There is a growing demand for medical schoolatthe Huambo Medical School, thus urging the need to improve the institution's installed capacity in order to increase vacancies.