2023-07-16 10:58:20
15/07/2023
In a letter addressed to public opinion in general, the Colombian Medical Association launched an alert regarding the possibility that Comprehensive Community Physicians trained in Venezuela come to offer their services to Colombia.
This alert call is given when the Congress of the Republic is carrying out work groups that seek that Community Comprehensive Physicians (MIC) can validate their titles and practice in the country.
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According to the organization, this would be a “danger” for the health of Colombians, since the academic training of these doctors is “very deficient and precarious.”
In the statement they say that the curricula of the MIC “do not meet the high training and professional demands that a medical professional requires”, and therefore cannot guarantee the excellence of health care in a nation.
These doctors mainly have empirical training that might not even be comparable to a medical degree issued by a Venezuelan university. This has been warned by the same Venezuelan National Academy of Medicine to the Ministry of Education of Colombia.
Lastly, the entity recalls that the Comprehensive Community Physicians were conceived in Venezuela in a health, social, political and economic context that was very different from that in which Colombia currently lives.
The Comprehensive Community Medicine Program emerged in Venezuela at the beginning of the 2000s with the support of the Cuban government to train human talent in health that might carry out some social health policies such as the Misión Barrio Adentro program.
But the training of MICs is mainly focused on preventive medicine and low-complexity primary care, and for this very reason the recognition of their titles as medical professionals has already been rejected in other countries in the region, such as Peru. in 2018.
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