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VoxUkraine: How former rector of the Kharkiv university became scourge for students

Published June 21, 2019 at 10:55 am

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY LAETITIA PERONStudents attend an anatomy course at the University of Medicine in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on December 5, 2014. According to figures issued by the university, on more than 2,000 international students from 57 different countries who were studying "before the war" at the faculty of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, only 84 remain today. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG

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On May 21, seven thousand senior students of Ukrainian medical universities have taken the test “KROK-2” (“STEP-2”) to verify their professional knowledge. Students have been taking this examination for 20 consecutive years already, but they clearly disliked the 2019 version of the test: the questionnaire included a number of very difficult questions.