The Dominican College of Surgeons raised with the Medical College his concern about the opening of new places to train specialists, without the quality standards that are required.
In a letter addressed to the CMD, the general director of Medical Residences of the Ministry of Health and the Coordinator of Medical Residences of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), the board of directors of the College of Surgeons expresses its concern about the opening of new schools, without the College or medical societies have been consulted.
The current residences of surgeons require evaluation and improvementmust be adapted to the most modern requirements, the specialized body indicates in its letter.
It ensures that there is no adequate supervision in the hospitals where it is intended to open schools to train surgeons. This responsibility corresponds to the universities that give the endorsement in the training of the new surgeon.
“Before opening new schools of surgery, it must be guaranteed that the standard of competence and skills of the graduates will be improved, taking the existing one as a reference,” says the College of Surgeons in its letter.
They don’t understand how he Ministry of Health It supports the training of specialists in surgery, without going through competitions, on many occasions with amounts that defy common sense, he indicated.
This, they say, stirs suspicion. in four years 151 places were publishednow doubled.
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Also, integrate a surveillance commission with the Ministry of Health, the National Health Service, universities, specialized societies and a hospital coordinator.
Likewise, that the State be the guarantor of better working and salary conditions for residents.
The entity that brings together the country’s obstetrician-gynecologists argued that training and monitoring in training must be provided, for which its support was offered.
“Knowing these deficiencies is that we think that opening new schools under these deficient schemes would further affect the weakened training structure that our graduates of existing schools already exhibit,” he pointed out.
