Students in Health Sciences and Medicine from the University of Granada who carry out their internships in health centers and hospitals in the second semester will receive vaccine against coronavirus. This is a measure confirmed by the academic institution and which goes in the line of immunization in the first stage of the process of groups of elderly people living in nursing homes and staff working in health centers.
Students who did internships at first quarter They underwent a Covid test to avoid the transmission of the disease as much as possible. The health measures and the need for a protocol when the second wave began to appear, in October, forced to delay the beginning of the training period for these students from the health centers and hospitals in the province. Similarly, practicum students who joined educational centers as part of their university training were tested.
Into the University of Granada There are 827 students enrolled in health care plus another 1,677 in medicine, according to data from the latest academic report. Students in the last years of these diplomas develop training practices in health centers, as well as those of other diplomas (dentistry, pharmacy or physiotherapy) and students of training cycles.