The rector of the University of Porto reported having received pressures from several “influential” people to let 30 candidates who had not obtained the minimum classification. Medical School says that “it is unaware of the existence of any form of pressure with the people involved.”
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) said on Friday in a statement unaware of the existence of any form of pressure with the people involved in the candidate selection process and, if the allegations are confirmed, repudiates them strictly.
Admitting candidates for the irregular medical course, nor to have suggested any solution that violates legal framework in force, in response to the declarations of the Rector of the University of Porto published by Expresso who report the existence of alleged “pressures” to facilitate entries in their medical school by, allegedly “influential and with access to power”.
The Express Journal notices that in the test required in the special access course for graduates in other areas.
“FMUP is unaware of the existence of any form of pressure with the people involved in this candidate selection process and, if these allegations are confirmed, repudiates them strictly,” the press release points out.
In the statement, FMUP “also regrets the fact that the rector of the University of Porto did not previously contacted the FMUP director to clarify this issue, before coming to public, creating misinformation and discrediting the good name of the institutions involved, that is, the Faculty of Medicine and the University of Porto”.
FMUP criticizes non -approval of results
The college “also regrets that, when the Rector of U.Porto decided, equally unexpectedly and unilateral, the results sent to him by the Medical School Selection Committee, he did not also not directly contacted his maximum guardian, suggesting him to promote the change of regulation.”
“In the same way, FMUP regrets that the weekly Express did not hear the director of FMUP in the construction of this news, and it was not possible to ensure the existence of contradictory and the opportunity to preserve the public image and reputation of this faculty, which we see unfairly affected. In fact, it only did so this morning, when it was already evident this matter to be a matter of first page”, continues the statement.
The FMUP recalls that the same rector “had already approved, in 2019, exactly with the same regulation, the entry of 37 candidates with a grade in the test test less than 14 values” and that this approval “was considered legal by the Porto Administrative and Fiscal Court” stating, therefore, “strange” that the rector “assumes, this time, a diametrically opposite position, harming not only the candidates who sought the most repute candidates Medical from the University of Porto, but also the good name of the college and that of the University of Porto, hinting a series of untruths of a politician than a rector. “
“Contrary to the Rectory of the University of Porto, the Faculty of Medicine of U.Porto has always been open to supranarial receivables, candidates accepted preliminarily by the institution, but not accepted by the rectory of the University of Porto,” adds FMUP that admits the possibility of involuntarily incurred in procedural failure when communicating all candidates for the final minutes, even before the approval of the placed, even the approval of the placed Rector, for the purposes of pronunciation of the candidates “.
