The Chairman of the Medical Association José Manuel Silva believes that, in the near future, doctors trained in Portugal may have to leave the country, "looking for better conditions". A message transmitted to the students of the Integrated Masters in Medicine (MIM) at the University of Algarve, at a meeting that took place this Wednesday.
José Manuel Silva "considers that more specialists are being trained, although he recognizes that there are some specialties with a lack of professionals, but he predicts that in 2025, according to a study presented, there will be between 6 to 9 excess specialists", as revealed by UAlg, in a press release.
His visit to the Algarve university was part of a two-day visit to the Bastonário region and served not only for José Manuel Silva to transmit to a room full of Medicine students «the most recent proposals to change the Medical Internship Regulation and the access test to the specialty”, but also to meet with the direction of the course and the dean of the institution António Branco.
MIM trained the first doctors at the end of the last school year and this was one of the topics of conversation between the direction of the course and the president. "This visit also served to convey to the President the positive balance of the MIM, which is now in its fifth edition, having already trained 29 doctors, who are already carrying out the Common Year in hospitals," according to the director of the MIM Isabel Palmeirim.
On the proposals to change the Medical Internship Regulation, the President said that "the Medical Association will continue to ensure the regulation".
In his opinion, “the real reform of the State has not yet taken place” and “the prospects for the future are not encouraging”. «By way of advice, the President of the Order ends the meeting asking future doctors to focus their action on two words above all: “quality and vocation”», concluded the UAlg.
PSD deputies visit Medicine course
After welcoming the President of the Medical Association, students and the MIM board prepare to receive the PSD deputies elected by the Algarve, who will be in Gambelas on Monday, from 14:30 pm, to learn more about the course.
The visit will be attended by Mendes Bota, Pedro Roque, Elsa Cordeiro and Cristóvão Norte, who «will contact the heads, students and professors of the Integrated Master's Course in Medicine, to find out how it has been going, what is the way out. annual number of doctors for the labor market, what is the rate of retention expected in the Region, what are the potentials to be explored and the difficulties to be overcome».
"One of the most problematic aspects of the Health sector in the Algarve is the lack of doctors, and the lack of attractiveness of the Region for this type of professionals, with public tenders being deserted as a recurrent situation", consider the Social Democratic deputies in a note press release.
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