The Government allocates 50 million to create 1,000 places for medical students but there is no shortage of students, there are no MIR places where they can specialize
The project of State’s general budgets by 2023 it allocates 7,049 million euros to health policies, which is 6.7% more than in the previous year. Of this amount, the bulk will go to the expense necessary for the acquisition of vaccines against Covid. Specifically, to finance the fourth dose – which has already been approved to be supplied to those over 60 and health personnel – and taking into account the possible extension to more groups, the Government foresees a 1,116 million euros.
Next, there is the item destined to improve the infrastructures, both in primary care and in mental health units, which is endowed with 500 million euros. In this section has drawn attention of the medical group that the Ministry of Health has included 50 million euros for the creation of 1,000 new places for medical students.
According to the State Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM), encouraging more young people to study medicine does not solve the supposed lack of doctors since, as the sector has been denouncing for years, in Spain there are plenty of Universities of Medicine and MIR vacancies are missing that provide the necessary specialization to be able to exercise the thousands of students who graduate each year. “To solve today’s problem, they create places for students, who will be able to practice in 10 or 11 years [tras cursar seis años de Medicina y cuatro o cinco de especialidad]so it is a micro part of the solution”the Mint Gabriel of the Wellgeneral secretary of CESM.
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Similar opinions have poured into the social networks dozens of health professionals, in a private capacity, who ask Health to invest more in increasing MIR places or in offering better hiring and stability to the collective, to attract talent and prevent doctors trained in Spain from eventually practicing in other countries.
More medical students but the same MIR vacancies and the same working conditions so that later the students, when they finish their studies, and the residents, when they finish their MIR, go to work in other countries and the problem remains unsolved.
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Beyond this controversy, the draft budget also includes 173 million euros that will go to the plan to improve the primary care and 44 million euros to expand oral health services in the portfolio of services, two of the priorities of the Ministry of Health.