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Related: About this forumVENEZUELA: Medical specialties suffer bloodletting
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Among the most affected medical specialties are internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and emergency medicine. The bloodletting of postgraduate studies is mostly being blamed on low wages, deteriorating infrastructure and a lack of medical supplies and medicines.
According to the National Council of Medical Postgraduate Courses, the country's leading university, Universidad Central de Venezuela, has experienced the biggest loss of medical specialties applications, with more than 40% of its places vacant. A university commission established that while in 2002 there were 2,093 doctor applicants, in 2010 that number dropped by more than 65% to 720.
Latest statistics from the Venezuelan Medical Federation show that more than 5,800 doctors have left Venezuela in the past 12 years, mainly for the United States, Australia, Spain and Canada, and more than 300 specialists leave every year. For those who stay, many seem to opt for immediate jobs in the private medical sector where they take up more lucrative specialties such as plastic surgery and ophthalmology.
While universities fret about filling the vacancies, many in the county worry about what the situation is doing to public health. Council President Dr Freddy Pachano said if the decline continued then "in the next three or four years, Venezuelan hospitals will experience a major crisis" in critical services.
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VENEZUELA: Medical specialties suffer bloodletting (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2013
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Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)1. See, I told you to give it a few weeks and you would find something else to
complain about Venezuela and Chavez.
Do you feel better now? Are you complete again?
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. try to keep up, it hasn't been a few weeks, its been a few hours
I have plenty to combat the propaganda from the Chavistas and their ghost leader.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)3. You are resilient.
Good for you.
Guess what though, Chavez still whooped that other guys butt.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)4. ok, your work is done here then. Guess what though?
Chavez is gone.
joshcryer
(62,277 posts)5. gusano de alimentos