The rector of the Lviv Medical University reacted to the scandal with sexist jokes at the distribution of graduates
83-year-old Borys Zimenkovskii, rector of the Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytskyi, says that during the distribution of graduates to the internship, he was just joking and did not want to offend anyone. Borys Zimenkovskyi told about this in the commentary “UP. Life”. Earlier, a video of the distribution of students got into the network, in which the rector mocks the student’s last name and is surprised that the student chose the surgical field, saying: “Woman, does she want to cut?”. “I didn’t say anything bad to any of the students. I was joking. The students didn’t hear my words. The vice-rector was sitting next to me on the right and I spoke to her quietly. However, there was a powerful microphone nearby and I picked it up,” says Borys Zimenkovskyi. Boris Zimenkovskyi. Photo: Your city The rector said that when he saw a pediatrician with the surname “Wolkodav”, he quietly said to a colleague: “Aren’t the children going to be scared?” According to Zimenkovsky, the joke about women was also not for a wide audience and students. “Still, surgery is an aggressive part of medicine. And not so simple. I agree that a woman can do anything, just like a man. But in my opinion, there are more feminine professions in medicine. For example, who likes women’s boxing? However, if someone accepted my words are at my expense, I apologize,” the rector notes. Borys Zimenkovsky also commented on the distribution of graduates, which was criticized by students and doctors for lack of transparency and changing the rules on the fly, and called it “normal”. However, he noted that there were mistakes, both on the part of the dean’s office and on the part of the students. The rector explained that this is the second distribution, when places for internships are allocated according to the students’ rating. That is, students who have the highest rating by the number of points have the right to be the first to choose internship places. In addition, this year, students studying pediatrics were included in the general list, which also affected the distribution of seats. However, Borys Zimenkovskii believes that the places for the distribution of students this year were “beautiful”, according to him, there were no such places for 20 years. Read also: The rector of the Ternopil university is accused of plagiarism
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