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Medicine continues to be one of the most requested degrees among Spanish youth. Faced with such demand, the Ministry of Health has allocated 52 million euros to increase university places from the 26 public ones, to 35 at present and from 2 private ones to 11 current ones, with an increase in places in medical schools of 74 percent. . But Pablo Lara, president of the National Confederation of Deans of Medical Schools, has assured that this is not the original problem of Primary Care. It is necessary to improve the specialty from the University and in addition to more university professors, more teachers are needed in the health centers. Therefore, the problem is not so much the training of family doctors, but the working conditions and job insecurity they face. Alberto is the director of his health center. This is what we talked regarding with Ana Pereira, a family doctor and public health researcher. She and several classmates abandoned the specialty a few years ago. A deficit of 11,000 Primary Care physicians is expected in the next 5 years. The message that they send from the National Confederation of Deans of Medical Schools is that “we must take care of health professionals because that is how we take care of our society”.-Editorial-
Medicine continues to be one of the most requested degrees among Spanish youth. Faced with such demand, the Ministry of Health has allocated 52 million euros to increase university places from the 26 public ones, to 35 at present and from 2 private ones to 11 current ones, with an increase in places in medical schools of 74 percent. . But Pablo Lara, president of the National Confederation of Deans of Medical Schools, has assured that this is not the original problem of Primary Care. It is necessary to improve the specialty from the University and in addition to more university professors, more teachers are needed in the health centers. Therefore, the problem is not so much the training of family doctors, but the working conditions and job insecurity they face. Alberto is the director of his health center. This is what we talked regarding with Ana Pereira, a family doctor and public health researcher. She and several classmates abandoned the specialty a few years ago. A deficit of 11,000 Primary Care physicians is expected in the next 5 years. The message that they send from the National Confederation of Deans of Medical Schools is that “we must take care of health professionals because that is how we take care of our society”.-Editorial-
