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MEDICAL SPECIALTY TRAINING IN GREECE

Regulated and controlled by the Greek Ministry of Health

Nicholas V. Dombros

Specialty Training in Greece

Population: 11,000,000 Physicians: 72,000 [ r= 1/153]

Public service: 12,000 Trainees: 10,000 Private: 50,000

General practitioners: 2,500 [r= 1/4,400]

Specialty Training in Greece

Total graduates from the 7 Greek

Medical Schools: ~ 1,000 per year

Plus

A decreasing number of non EE Medical

Schools graduates who obtain license through exams

[2006: 400 → 350 → 300 → 250 → ? ]

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Specialty Training in Greece

Any licensed to practice physician is

allowed to apply for …

Any specialty training program in a public

hospital …

anywhere in the country (choice influenced

by length of waiting list)

Specialty Training in Greece

Priority on a “first come, first served

basis”

On the day of their graduation young

physicians rally to the relative prefecture office to apply for the training program of their choice.

Specialty Training in Greece

Median time on waiting list 5 (range1-8) yrs Waiting time varies by specialty, city,

hospital, clinic or lab

38 Medical Specialties offered almost in

each Greek city

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Specialty Training in Greece

Training offered by licensed “Training

Units” in

Public Hospitals University Hospitals Military Hospitals

Specialty Training in Greece

Proposals for reform:

Priority through national entering exams Rotating training in different “training

units” of the same specialty in one region

“Log book” for each trainee Frequent evaluation of trainees and units National final exams harmonized with

UEMS