Luis Gorospe, SERAM Training Manager.
In addition to the fact that, according to Gorospe, “the number of MIR vacancies summoned for this specialty are insufficient”, from the SERAM “they also consider it necessary that the Ministry progressively increase the number of vacancies to cover the needs of the specialty”. The head of Training at the company assures that “precisely quantifying how many more seats are needed It is not easy, since the following factors must be taken into account:
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Territorial asymmetries.
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The replacement rates of radiologists who will retire in the next four or five years. That is, the time it takes to reach the degree in Radiodiagnosis residents who start their training in 2022.
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The number of residents who will leave the specialty, which, fortunately, are very few in Radiodiagnosis.
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The number of trained radiologists who will decide to go abroad to practice their profession. A situation that, despite the fact that for now there are not too many, may change in the coming years.
Once these factors have been taken into account, Gorospe points out that “the number of places needed“. Likewise, he stresses that “it might also increase the teaching capacity of some hospitals increasing the number of MIR vacanciesbut some Autonomous Communities are reluctant to do so”. In addition, Gorospe adds that “there are hospitals that do not consider increasing the number of MIR vacancies, alleging that they are at the limit in terms of teaching capacity”.
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“Training a doctor as a specialist is an investment and letting this human capital escape is a waste” |
Despite this, Gorospe regrets that “all these policies to increase the number of doctors who are trained as specialists will not meet their objectives if they are not coordinated with some proper hiring policies once the resident doctors finish their training”. The fact of “training a doctor as a specialist supposes a very important investment, and letting this human capital escape is a waste that our society and our Sanitary system they cannot be allowed,” Gorospe cries.
Added to this is the fact that “many heads of Radiodiagnosis Service find it difficult to find and hire radiologists in the Public Health Systemand it seems that it may be partly because the Private Health System offersoften, best contracts and economic conditions“Gorospe emphasizes.
There is also the situation that “some radiologists are beginning to consider exercise outside of Spain, since the contracts and economic conditions are significantly better in other neighboring countries. These scenarios further jeopardize the lack of radiologists in our territory,” warns Gorospe.
The lack of radiologists in the Autonomous Communities: a reality
In this sense, for Gorospe “the lack of radiologists in many CCAA it is a reality”. Recently, “hospitals in Soria, Yecla, Ibiza or Tudela, for example, have lamented the lack of radiologists, which causes undesirable situations such as a patient having to travel to another city to undergo certain tests radiological”.
Although some large but relatively sparsely populated autonomous communities “chronically suffered from a shortage of radiologists, other more populated ones are also beginning to show problems in meeting the needs of these specialists,” concludes Gorospe.
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