2023-07-17 16:57:14
In practice, their level of study would be technical, according to estimates / Reference image
Through a press release, the Colombian Medical College (CMC) alerted society to a growing rumor, according to which Comprehensive Community Physicians, trained in Venezuela, could achieve medical qualifications in Colombia.
“A potential threat that looms over the health of Colombians, and is due to the legitimate concern that assists us due to the fact that several work groups have been held in the Congress of the Republic aimed at ensuring that the so-called Integral Physicians Community (MIC), graduates in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, can validate their titles and practice in our country, “explains the corporation.
Tables like the one announced by the peasant senator, Roberto Daza, on Tuesday, July 11 on his Twitter account: “MinEducación, MinSalud, the Venezuelan Embassy and Venezuelan universities. This moment when the country must think for the communities, the experience of these doctors is essential”.
However, from the Colombian Medical College, they consider that validating the titles of community integral physicians (MIC) – at a technical level, according to estimates – as medical professionals can represent a threat to patients. And it is that his theoretical-practical training “is very deficient and precarious”, compared to that of a doctor who has studied 7 or 8 years before practicing.
According to what was stated by the president of the Colombian Medical College (CMC), Dr. Stevenson Marulanda, in an interview for Blu Radio, agrees “in the aims –of the promoters of this initiative– but not in the media. Why? Because these comprehensive community doctors are not doctors and do not have the training, the curriculum, the curriculum that is required to be a doctor”.
It is guided by the letter sent by the National Academy of Medicine of Venezuela to the Ministry of Education, in which the Misión Barrio Adentro project is thoroughly analyzed, for which the figure of the MIC was created. They maintain that it is an experimental program and that it does not comply with the training required in the Venezuelan university education systems.
“Those traditional Venezuelan faculties do not agree either, nor do the Venezuelan scientific societies, nor the Venezuelan Medical Federation”, equivalent to the CMC in Colombia.
Many of them are young Colombians who saw the opportunity to train in the neighboring country, but when they arrive the reality is different: “They rent them some big houses there, they put them there and they show them some physiology, anatomy and biology videos. But they are not Venezuelan teachers. They are online tutorials, which make them far from any training”, without clinical practice.
In its letter, the National Academy of Medicine indicates that “the specialists consulted -in Venezuela- have opined that, at the time of their admission to the postgraduate rotating internship, the community integral doctors did not have professional skills considered essential for professional practice . For example: they did not know how to carry out a complete physical examination, satisfactorily formulate a clinical diagnosis”.
Its study programs were designed for a health context different from that of Colombia; Hence, in countries like Peru they decided not to homologate their degree, which, in practice, certifies an assistant capable of carrying out low-complexity prevention and primary care tasks.
And his training process “was marked by the lack of qualified teachers and adequate spaces for teaching. With an incomplete study plan, without a curriculum without curricular content and offering a title, for that moment, non-existent in the law of the practice of medicine: all consistent with illegal and fraudulent procedures.
From the Congress, Daza proposes to evaluate the 1,000 Colombians certified as MIC, so that they obtain recognition for their studies. But their level of training is uncertain and requires a thorough evaluation that does not put the lives of Colombians at risk. Something that the CMC will try to work on at the next technical table, to discuss as a scientific society the way in which the lack of human talent in the country should be addressed.
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