The Local Health Unit (ULSALG) in the Algarve received 202 new intern doctors, which allows it to ensure “the generational replacement of teams”, informed the president of the board of directors of that health entity.
According to a press release from ULSALG, the welcoming ceremony for the clinicians took place last Friday, in the municipality of Castro Marim, in the district of Faro, and the 202 doctors will undertake their internship in health units in the Algarve, on the slopes general and specialty training, internship in General and Family Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy.
At the time, the president of the board of directors of , Tiago Botelho, mentioned in the note, considered that “the [médicos] interns are the lifeblood of the National Health Service”, professionals who ensure “the generational replacement of teams”.
“Claim, challenge, invite, summon, put your tutors in check, confront them, because that is where progress and knowledge come from, contact with different ideas and the demand to do better”, asked Tiago Botelho.
The person in charge made himself available “to monitor the continuous improvement” of the new doctors, highlighting that in “the Algarve we do the best of what is done in the country and in the world”.
The doctors were placed in the specialties of General and Family Medicine (26), Anesthesiology (two), General Surgery (two), Gastroenterology (two), Gynecology/Obstetrics (three), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (five), Intensive Medicine (two , Internal Medicine (seven), Oncology (two), Pediatrics (two), Pulmonology (two), Psychiatry (three) and Radiology (two).
The specialties of Public Health, Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuroradiology, Otorhinolaryngology, Clinical Pathology, Rheumatology and Urology received a doctor.
As for General Training, “in order to deepen their knowledge in different clinical contexts”, 132 interns will develop their training, in a supervised manner, in different specialties and services, the note reads.
The Hospital Pharmacy area received eight new pharmaceutical residents who will complete the training program in health units in the Algarve.
According to the Algarve Local Health Unit, the “number of intern doctors in the Algarve has been gradually increasing since 2023”.
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