Post by pigeonpie on Nov 12, 2008 17:50:12 GMT
University of Baleares to train doctors from 2010
C.M.W. Maó
Future doctors in the Balearic Health Service could be trained in the Islands with effect from 2010, if parliament’s plans to create a faculty of medicine are fulfilled. Earlier studies have vouched for the viability of such a project which is strongly backed by the regional government.
There are two main justifications for introducing medical studies to the region. Firstly, the Balearic Islands and La Rioja are the only autonomous communities not to offer this academic course. The second factor is that both the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the regional public health service are now ready to assume a teaching role. At the moment between 30 and 40 future physicians a year ask the UIB for a transfer to one of the 34 faculties in other parts of Spain to pursue their career.
The Balearic Faculty of Medicine would accept some 80 students per year. Once fully functional, after eight years, it would cost between 6 and 7 million euros.
Each year some 160 doctors are taken on by the regional health system. In the five years between 2002 and 2007 the medical work force increased by more than 1,000. Training them in the Balearic Islands might persuade the students to remain in the area once their studies have been completed.
Another benefit would be an increase in medical investigation, partly because the faculty’s professors would build up their experience of projects and publications.
The student doctors would receive their training at Son Espases Hospital in Palma but would be sent to hospitals and medical centres throughout the islands for practical experience.
C.M.W. Maó
Future doctors in the Balearic Health Service could be trained in the Islands with effect from 2010, if parliament’s plans to create a faculty of medicine are fulfilled. Earlier studies have vouched for the viability of such a project which is strongly backed by the regional government.
There are two main justifications for introducing medical studies to the region. Firstly, the Balearic Islands and La Rioja are the only autonomous communities not to offer this academic course. The second factor is that both the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the regional public health service are now ready to assume a teaching role. At the moment between 30 and 40 future physicians a year ask the UIB for a transfer to one of the 34 faculties in other parts of Spain to pursue their career.
The Balearic Faculty of Medicine would accept some 80 students per year. Once fully functional, after eight years, it would cost between 6 and 7 million euros.
Each year some 160 doctors are taken on by the regional health system. In the five years between 2002 and 2007 the medical work force increased by more than 1,000. Training them in the Balearic Islands might persuade the students to remain in the area once their studies have been completed.
Another benefit would be an increase in medical investigation, partly because the faculty’s professors would build up their experience of projects and publications.
The student doctors would receive their training at Son Espases Hospital in Palma but would be sent to hospitals and medical centres throughout the islands for practical experience.
