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It is estimated that about 68 doctors are missing in Poland. The average age of specialists is increasing, e.g. in general surgery it is as high as 58 years. The Ministry of Health sees the problem and increases the number of places in individual specializations – these are also specializations that do not enjoy a good reputation among young doctors. In turn, the more popular specializations are available only to a few. The new list of residencies does not arouse enthusiasm in the medical community.
List of residential locations for doctors and dentists
The Ministry of Health has published information on the number of residency places for doctors and dentists who will start their specialization on the basis of the procedure conducted on March 1-31, 2020. Doctors will be able to start specializing in 1946 residency places. The most places were allocated to specializations in internal medicine (162), emergency medicine (104) and neurology (103). 72 doctors will be able to specialize in anaesthesiology and intensive care, and 75 in psychiatry.
– As in previous years, the Ministry of Health has focused on allocating the largest number of residential places to specializations in which the shortages are most noticeable – emergency medicine, general surgery, internal diseases, family medicine (80), neonatology (82) and paediatrics (66). Certainly, the neurological lobby had a positive effect, pointing to a dynamically aging group of neurologists, which put neurology in the third place in the number of residential places granted, comments the drug for MedTvoiLokony. Bartosz Fiałek from the Polish Trade Union of Doctors.
Despite such a large number of places, the expert believes that a large part of them will not be used.
– Working conditions in these specializations are very bad, so the number of applicants is small. Already in previous years it was noticeable that most of these residencies are not filled. Nothing will change without improving working conditions and the system of financial incentives – he adds.
There are few endocrinologists, allergists and dermatologists
Fiałek also notes that the more detailed and seemingly “more interesting” specializations were very modestly awarded with the number of places.
– Allergology got four places for the whole of Poland, dermatology – four places, gastroenterology – six places, endocrinology – six places – she lists and adds: – And the queues for these specialists are often the longest. So, again, we are dealing with an unequal distribution of residences, which does not meet the health needs of Polish women and Poles, or the interests of doctors.
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Number of places for specific specializations:
- allergology — 4
- anesthesiology and intensive care – 72
- angiology — 6
- audiology and phoniatria — 10
- balneology and physical medicine – 1
- pediatric surgery – 24
- thoracic surgery – 14
- vascular surgery – 7
- general surgery – 64
- oncological surgery — 29
- plastic surgery – 4
- dental surgery – 19
- maxillofacial surgery – 6
- lung diseases – 42
- lung diseases of children – 17
- internal diseases – 162
- infectious diseases – 64
- dermatology and wenerology – 4
- diabetology – 17
- laboratory diagnostics – 9
- endocrynology — 6
- endocrinology and pediatric diabetology – 6
- epidemiology — 7
- clinical pharmacology – 4
- gastroenterology – 6
- pediatric gastroenterology – 10
- clinical genetics – 6
- geriatrics – 32
- hematology — 49
- clinical immunology – 6
- cardiosurgery – 21
- cardiology — 16
- pediatric cardiology – 6
- aviation medicine – 0
- marine and tropical medicine – 2
- nuclear medicine – 17
- palliative medicine – 6
- occupational medicine – 21
- emergency medicine – 104
- family medicine – 80
- forensic medicine – 9
- sports medicine – 3
- Leka microbiology — 8
- nephrology — 43
- pediatric nephrology – 10
- neonatology – 82
- neurosurgery – 9
- neurology – 103
- pediatric neurology – 11
- neuropatologia — 0
- ophthalmology – 11
- pediatric oncology and hematology – 18
- clinical oncology – 87
- orthodontics – 12
- orthopedics and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system – 16
- otorhinolaryngology – 14
- pediatric otorhinolaryngology – 9
- pathomorphology — 49
- pediatrics — 66
- metabolic pediatrics – 4
- periodontology — 7
- obstetrics and gynecology – 16
- dental prosthetics – 22
- psychiatry — 75
- psychiatry of children and adolescents – 21
- radiology and imaging diagnostics – 16
- oncological radiotherapy – 51
- medical rehabilitation – 85
- rheumatology – 13
- pediatric dentistry – 14
- conservative dentistry with endodontics – 28
- clinical toxicology – 7
- clinical transfusion medicine – 18
- urology – 20
- public health – 9
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