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Although the public sector continues to be the one with the highest percentage of resident medical interns (MIR) and rest of places Specialized Health Training (ESF) welcomes in the Spanish health system, the private one is gradually making its way in this field. According to a report published by the Andalusian Medical Union, the number of doctors in training has risen this month of March to 32,476 seats in Spain. A figure that, despite being higher than the previous year, decreases after the first year of residence. To retain talent, private groups like Sanitas and HM Hospitals focus their offer on three axes: personalized treatment, innovative therapies and state-of-the-art technology.
Emilio Matutepresident of the Sanitas Teaching Commission, explains to Medical Writing that in his group there is a “continuous concern to know how the resident is” and that the degree of “involvement” of all team doctors, as well as Nursing and the rest of the care staff as a difference with respect to the competition. “As the Sanitas resident does not have to assume a care burden beyond what is necessary for his training, their progress is much more supervised, regulated and directed always in your interest”, he highlights.
While, Maria OllerosDirector of Postgraduate Studies at HM Hospitales, points out that in their centres, as they have a small number of residents (the private one offers around 100 places throughout the national territory), they also receive “greater oversight” by the tutor. “Carrying out the residency in a private hospital allows the doctor in training access in a more individualized way to consultations, medical and surgical processes, given that the resident/guardian ratio is much lower than in a public entity”. Likewise, it defends that the teaching quality is “equal to or better” than in public hospitals because, in addition, in “most cases” there are a single resident per specialty in his formative year.
Cutting-edge treatments and supervised involvement in the MIR
“We are committed to MIR training because we believe in excellence and the best way to ensure that new generations of medical specialists are excellent is to lay the foundations with a residence of the highest level”, affirms Matute. In fact, he adds that Sanitas has designed a MIR program focused on each resident developing “their full potential as a medical specialist.”
Likewise, it points out that another “differentiating innovative vocation” is the availability of state-of-the-art technological equipment and training in telemedicine: “We try to be in the avant-garde treatments and diagnostic techniquesbut we are also leading Digital Medicine”, he points out.
“Being a smaller number, they receive a highly individualized training and with a high degree of supervision by their tutors”, they insist from HM Hospitales, where they also agree that “the high level of technological investment” carried out in the last decade by the private sector guarantees that future doctors will be equipped with the skills necessary to operate with latest technology platforms.
Innovative vocation and research training
Asked about the initiatives carried out to retain talent After having trained the MIR residentsMatute expresses that in Sanitas “a large part” decides to continue in the team. “We firmly believe in having the best with us and the voluntary turnover rates that we register year after year are very low”, he maintains.
“The key for a medical specialist is to exercise a high value medicine for patients, in environment of greater guarantee and clinical safety, with the technology and innovative vocation that encourages its development. In sum, stimulating environments to be excellent. And that is what we offer in our hospitals,” she stresses.
HM Hospitals It also includes different advantages to have residents who finish their training. At this point, Olleros remarks “the high volume and complexity of care” comprising the health group, as well as the academic training in clinical research that he carries out in different specialties to enrich his learning and “without which at the present time quality training is not understood”.
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