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Government suppresses internships from the proposal for revision of the statutes of the Portuguese Medical Association

Government suppresses internships from the proposal for revision of the statutes of the Portuguese Medical Association

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The government has removed from the proposal for revision of the statutes of the Medical Association the references “to the existence of internships” that appeared until now, and that suppression “had the favorable opinion of the Association,” clarified today the Ministry of Health.

In a press release, the Government states that the “new statutes of the Portuguese Medical Association do not introduce any changes in post-graduate training” and that the “internship model was already in the law and has never been applied.

The Ministry of Health clarifies “that, contrary to what has been stated, the proposed revision of the statutes of the Medical Association does not introduce any change in the model of post-graduate development of the medical profession, which has as its pillar the completion of the medical internship,” reads the document.

As a matter of fact, the existence of internships, “source of the misconceptions that have been installed, is foreseen in the current Statutes of the Order of Physicians, in force for several years, as an alternative mechanism to the internship”.

However, it has been verified that this “mechanism has not been used and may be considered obsolete”, so “the Government has decided to include in the proposal that will be submitted to Parliament the suppression of the references to the existence of internships that have so far appeared in the Statutes of the Order of Physicians”.

The Ministry of Health points out that this suppression “had a favorable opinion from the Order” and reaffirms its “commitment to the continuity of the medical internship, as a model of professional development for doctors, access to autonomy in the exercise of their activity and to the titles of specialist.

He also stresses that “nothing in the proposed revision of the Statutes of the Portuguese Medical Association puts that commitment into question” and that he “is deeply committed to the valorization of the medical career and the internship is an integral part of that process, from which the health of the Portuguese and the SNS have benefited so much.

On June 14, the coordinator of the Commission for the Reform of Public Health resigned because he disagreed with the new framework law for professional associations and the new statute of the Medical Association, which he called the government’s “liquidationist offensive” against doctors.

In statements to the Lusa news agency, Mário Jorge Neves considered that the Order of Physicians should take “an energetic position in defense of its existence and of the class itself.

In a letter sent Tuesday night to the Secretary of State for Health Promotion, to which Lusa had access, Mário Jorge Neves explained the reasons for his resignation, stressing his disagreement with the so-called new law of orders and with the text proposal for the new statutes of the Order of Physicians, prepared by the Government.

As an example of the concerns raised by the new statutes, Mário Jorge Neves pointed out the creation of “internships” and the fact that doctors, at the beginning of their professional activity, will no longer be considered as intern doctors and will become “trainees”.

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