"Certification and Recertification of Medical Specialties: Importance and Process Explained by Experts in Tucumán"

2023-05-02 15:42:09

The Minister of Public Health, Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, was part of the jury that carried out this activity today at the Faculty of Medicine.

In this regard, Medina Ruiz recounted: “In this case, he is certifying the specialty of General and Family Medicine, and I am part of the jury. The truth is that it encourages medical professionals to bet on training, certification and recertification, which are instances where they have to demonstrate that they continue to train. In addition, they continue to develop private and public activity, which have headquarters. All of this generates scores, which every five years have these instances. This is why we bet that our human resources continue to be trained to ultimately provide better care for patients”.

Following this line, the President of the Council for Certification and Recertification of Medical Specialties, doctor Maria Veronica CoccioliHe recounted: “The CECREM is the Council for Certification and Recertification of Medical Specialties, it is made up of a member of Siprosa, the Faculty of Medicine, the Southern Medical Circle and the Medical College. In other words, all four institutions form this council and on this occasion they certify in this court several specialties, one of them is General and Family Medicine, that is why we have called our Minister and we have summoned him to be a court of this specialty”.

“The greatest importance of this is the fact that certifying and recertifying means continuous updating within our specialty. This expires every five years, and every five years a physician who wishes to voluntarily become certified or recertified must show eligibility. There are several points, for example, for teaching, for research, for assistance work and that is demonstrated before this council that follows from a national law, ”he explained.

And he added: “The presentation is voluntary, the calendar is notified in the previous year, that is, we are already publicizing the calendar for the different specialties and core specialties such as surgery, cardiology, clinics, gynecology, are opened every year. and every two years the rest of the medical specialties that are nationally approved as medical specialties. It should be noted that in this court there are 70 professionals who certify and recertify the different specialties that have been called ”, he closed.

Finally, the doctor Mario Javier NaculI am a medical secretary of Scientific Activities for the Círculo Médico del Sur and currently president of CECREM, highlighted: “I think it is one of the, let’s say, virtuous things that the region has, in this case Tucumán, that four institutions that make up the Council can agree on mechanisms and regulations so that the different medical specialties are regulated, certified and recertified, guaranteeing the suitability of medical practice in the region”.

“The mechanism is carried out through processes of different specialties, in which courts made up of recognized professionals in the environment, certified and recertified by our Council, are called, who participate in the evaluation of the applicants, in this case if it is first time to certify or recertify by adding points every five years to obtain, at the end of each process, in the act that we generally do at the end of the year, the delivery of this certificate where the suitability of the professional is established”, he concluded.