Controversy Surrounding Hiring of Newly Graduated Doctors without Specialization: Impact on Patient Safety and Quality of Care

2023-06-16 13:01:06

In recent days, some regional Health Services have proposed the recruitment of newly graduated doctorswithout specializing, to supply the medical absences this summer in health centers. This goes once morest the regulations, which indicates that doctors without the MIR cannot be hired in consultations to make substitutions. From the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen) have communicated to Medical Writing that “they will have to study” prosecute these proposals and say they feel “discredited” y “ignoredby the administrations.

“Recently graduated doctors, without specialized training, they know a lot regarding theory, but little regarding practice“, says Aurora García Lerín, Secretary of the Semergen Board of Directors. García indicates that this is not the first time that it has happened and is in “complete disagreement” with these proposals from the administrations. “Endangers patient safety“, he emphasizes, and adds that during the vacation period the supervision that these graduates may have from other colleagues is reduced to a third.

The secretary ensures that hire doctors without the MIR “denigrates” the profession. “It occurs to no one that a recently graduated person, without a specialty, starts doing surgery or starts doing a Neurology consultation. Why Family Medicine? They are ignoring us,” says García.

From Semergen they affirm that “they will have to study” judicialize these proposals and ensure that the lack of doctors It’s not just a problem right now. The administrations have to start “working seriously” to find a solution, says García. “It is a problem that is becoming more evident now, but happens all year“, emphasizes the secretary, who indicates that in previous years the pandemic was used as an excuse, but that was already something that happened before the covid. “We are no longer in a time of pandemic, of an extreme situation,” he says, and affirms that the lack of doctors during the vacation period “might have been perfectly organized and foreseen.” García points out that hiring doctors without a specialty is “just a patch“. “With this we are not going anywhere,” he says.

Improve conditions for doctors and patients

The general secretary of Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG), Teresa Beneditoalso considers that these proposals “discredit” the specialty. “There are four years of training that a Family doctor does when he finishes his medical degree. There are four years of intense training to finish a specialty and be able to offer our patients the quality of care they really deserve. Colleagues who really work without previous training via MIR, surely they cannot offer that quality of care that we offer”, affirms Benedito, who adds that this affects the patient safety.

For SEMG, the solution is promote Primary Care. “You should try improve working conditions of family doctors. What a pity that doctors, colleagues, friends of mine, who are Family doctors, have to not only change provinces, but also go abroad to improve their conditions labor and economic“, says the SEMG secretary.

“Limiting patient quotas favors working conditions”

Benedito indicates that it is up to the administrations to favor some decent working conditionsand comment that there is “mucha inequality” according to the autonomous community in which it is exercised. The secretary stresses that these improvements should be for all doctors, not only for those in Primary Care.

For her, this improvement should focus above all on the consultation times. Benedito claims that have more time to dedicate to each patient It would help them work better. “Not having such large quotas (of patients) in our offices, limiting them, favors better working conditions, not only for us, but also for our patients.”

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