Regulatory Framework and Dynamics of Human and Financial Resources regarding Medical Residency

Abstract

In the context of the particular importance of residency in medicine, aimed at ensuring the selection of the best candidates for specialization programs and guaranteeing the existence of an optimal number of medical specialists to provide quality medical services, we will insist in this paper on the particular dynamics of the resources of human and financial order, amplified in the last period, referring to the normative framework applicable to this matter. The system under discussion is a vast one, only if we think only of the number of resident doctors and pharmacists in training in 2022, which is 30,250, of which 21,882 in the field of Medicine. Also, the institutional framework applicable to it is one of the most complex. The structure of this paper includes, following this introductory part (1): Theoretical background (2), Research methodology (3), Approach regarding the status of the resident doctor based on the legislation applicable to medical residency (4), Dynamics of the number of places and resources of a financial-budgetary nature allocated annually to medical residency in the recent period. Effects obtained (5) and Conclusions (6).