domingo, 3 de mayo de 2015
Medical Surplus
Hi future doctors!
This week I would like you to introduce you into a discussion of something realated with Medicine but is not about any subject.
Sometimes, because of we are so busy studying, with our clinical clerkship and other stuff that we are not informed about what's happening in the medical world.
As you all know, i'm in touch with this world and I want to explain you the situation that we have nowadays in Spain. I would like you to think about it and at the end I would make you some questions.
There are too many medical schools in Spain, and is still expected to open seven more, which, for the Medical Profession Forum, which brings together the most representative industry organizations (schools, deans, students ...), equivalent to an excess of graduates that the system can not absorb. The mismatch between supply of MIR (the specialized training needed to practice in Spain) and graduates every year out of medical schools is now 1,000 doctors. Meanwhile, unemployment among Doctors increases, and with it, migration for work.
"Spain is the second country of over 20 million people with more medical schools per capita, and if they open the seven that are now planned, will be the number one," said today Ricardo Rigual, president of the National Conference of Deans of Medical Schools. "In just eight years we have gone from 28 to 40 schools and 3,450 students who enter school at 7,000," he added during a press conference. Both medical colleges and students, deans, trade unions and scientific societies agree: the absolute control that has reigned in the opening of new faculties must end.
The seven new powers provided are Campus Mare Nostrum (Murcia) and Catholic University San Antonio (Alicante), both private; Concerted in Vic (Barcelona) and four public, three in Andalusia (Almería, Jaén and Huelva) and one in the Balearic Islands.
Doctors have insisted this morning emerging from 7,000 faculty Doctors, but there are only 6,000 places MIR. "Setting those two numbers is essential", said the president of the Confederación Estatal de Sindicatos Médicos (CESM), Francisco Miralles, who has pointed to another problem: the money invested in training a doctor who ends up working outside Spain . "Being a doctor costs between 200,000 and 250,000 euros, according to some calculations we did a few years ago," he explained. Moreover, Mir places offered have declined in the last two calls by 10 percent, while the number of students entering this degree it has in only 1.35 percent, according to the Forum of the medical profession.
What do you think about this measure of creating more medicine faculties in Spain? 40 faculties are few?
What do you think about our future as a doctors, when the MIR places are reduced each year?
Is something that we could do to try to solve this?
Have a nice weekend! :)
Mercè
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ResponderEliminarHi Mercè,
ResponderEliminarWhat an interesting article! I think it’s so useful for us because, as you said, we are not informed about what's happening in the medical world.
I think that 40 medicine faculties in Spain is a disproportionate number, especially for the low number of MIR positions. I would find it appropiate if there were enough work for all doctors, but this is not the case and I pressume some economic interest must lay behind this fact.
After saying that, my opinion about our future as doctors it’s dark. Some of us will have to go to work abroad, and at the end, who loses out is the Spanish economy.
Eventually, the only think we can do now as students is protest and demonstrate so that no more medicine faculties are built.
Have a nice weekend!
Hi Mercè!
ResponderEliminarOne more time you appear fighting for the rights of all of us. So thank you so much for it because it’s true that the majority of us do not care about and we need someone like you to remind us that there are people working hard to maintain the quality of medical profession in Spain.
About your questions the answers are simply:
The first, there is a surplus of medicine student so most of them will not have a place to work as a resident student. So it makes no sense invest in the training of a doctor if then he or she couldn’t offer their knowledge to the community.
About our future as doctors I think we will have most difficulties to get a place and many students will be out of square so they will have to retake the exam and the surplus will continue to increase.
I think that one possible solution would be, instead of creating new medical schools, build new hospitals. This would entail an increase in jobs of very many sectors and improve the functioning of the health system as it currently is saturated.
Marta Córdoba
Hi, thanks for your interesting article.
ResponderEliminarIf I have to talk for my own benefit, I will absolutely criticize the profect of setting new medical colleges. The less medical students are in Spain, the more possibilities I'll have to choose the specialization training I want, and later find a good job.
However, I also think that competiveness is sometimes useful in order to select the very best of students. The problem here, though, is that a good mark at MIR isn't necessarily to do with professionalism as a future doctor.
Perhaps, the problem here is not the increasing number of students, but the lack of work places for all of them. Public system is collapsed nowadays. Maybe, we do need more doctors but at the same time, more investment in Public Health.
It's just my opinion at this particular moment of today...
After all the comments I’ve received, I must point out that everyone is awarded that increasing number of new faculties is increasing a great problematic for any new medicine student just remind that we are coming over of a financial crisis that is still pending since 2008. For this reason, we should work all together an not one and one in order to find a properly solution for this measure problem that would affect the next decades and the prosperity of the country.
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