{"id":143704,"date":"2022-09-12T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=143704"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:25","slug":"inequality-of-opportunity-in-medical-programmes-rises-lower-admission-rate-for-candidates-with-a-migrant-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/09\/12\/inequality-of-opportunity-in-medical-programmes-rises-lower-admission-rate-for-candidates-with-a-migrant-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality of opportunity in medical programmes rises: lower admission rate for candidates with a migration background"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students with a Surinamese, Turkish, Dutch Caribbean or Moroccan background are less likely to be admitted to a medical programme. In contrast, young people whose parents belong to the wealthiest 10% of the population have a higher likelihood of admission. These are the findings of a study<\/a> by Lianne Mulder, a PhD student at VU University Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

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The diversity among medical students in the Netherlands has decreased following the discontinuation of the lottery system and the introduction of student selection, according to Mulder\u2019s study<\/a>. In the lottery system, only marks were taken into account. Students were divided into lottery groups: those with higher marks were placed in a higher group and had better chances of being admitted.<\/p>\n\n\t

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