Health institutions are analyzing curricula to define specialists, which recently represents a need for public health.
Speaking to TVM2, Health Minister Azir Aliu says that requests are being reviewed to profile the field of specialization and not have a specialist study for 6 years and then return to local health institutions.
"So we have done analyses together with the Chamber of Physicians together with the universities that produce doctor profiles, so in three universities in Macedonia, we created a working group, so the working group is at the end, I believe that by the end of the week we will have a new approach, where we will now have general specializations, we will have a specialist who will be a general specialist and then will continue with sub-specializations for diseases or different approaches in healthcare. With this, we will create a profile that every health home, every health institution will need, a profile that will provide more general services than so far," said Aliu.
Sub-specializations in line with needs Analyses are also being conducted for sub-specializations, says Minister Aliu.
"We will definitively define sub-specializations for the first time and they will be in line with the demands and needs of the health ecosystem in the country, and all of this, together with the Ministry of Education, we have created a working group that, even in the first cycle of production of medical sisters, technicians and doctors, will be the opening of vacancies in formal education that will be in line with the needs of the state, so we have created a working group that is currently analyzing how many doctors we have graduated, how many doctors are in the process of graduating as medical sisters and technicians.", said Aliu.
Minister Aliu emphasizes that starting next year, the number of spaces to study medicine, in medical and technical high schools, will be defined and based on these processes, a 10-year human capacity strategy will be developed, as currently the main problem in healthcare, in addition to infrastructure, is the lack of doctors and nurses.
