The UIB is protecting itself against private universities to maintain exclusivity in public hospitals.

PalmThe Faculty of Medicine at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) has pledged to ensure that the public university hospitals within the IB-Salut network maintain their exclusive affiliation with the public university and are not negatively impacted by the arrival of private universities seeking to offer medical degrees in the Balearic Islands. This comes at a time when CEU San Pablo, Adema (either as an independent university or affiliated with Isabel I University), and the Felipe Moreno Higher Education Center (affiliated with Nebrija University) are all looking to establish themselves in Mallorca with health-related degrees, offering nursing programs.

This is the main conclusion of the statement issued by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) after Parliament approved, on October 28, several measures to protect public medical education. Among the approved points, the statement emphasizes the commitment to ensuring that no university hospital is affiliated with more than one university for the same degree, as established by Royal Decree 1558/1986, as well as guaranteeing all the clinical placements that the UIB may need, now and in the future.

A prestigious public education

The Faculty welcomes this decision, which it considers an important step towards guaranteeing "quality medical training within the framework of a public, inclusive, and excellent university." It also notes that the UIB's Medicine program, created in 2016 by parliamentary mandate and with broad political and social consensus, has already graduated four classes of students with "excellent results" in the MIR exams. Despite sharing the need to increase public university places in health studies, the UIB cautions that this measure "must be accompanied by adequate budgetary allocation and the necessary material and human resources," and that any internship agreements with other universities must have the UIB's prior authorization. However, the institution reaffirms its commitment to the public health system and states that it will defend the central role of the public university in medical training in the Balearic Islands.