Primary, internal and public health require the establishment of specific training areas in infectious diseases and emergencies

Five scientific medical societies have promoted a statement addressed to the Secretary of Health, health advisors, and health spokespersons from congressional and Senate parliamentary groups under the banner “Don’t swear health care anymore.” In the Ask to be created Training areas Infectious diseases and emergencies To avoid fragmentation of health care.

The signatories to the statement are the Spanish Association of Primary Care Physicians (SEMERGEN), the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SemFYC), the Spanish Association of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (SEMG), the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (Half) and the Spanish Society of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Health Administration (SAMPA)SEMPSPGS).

aging population

The document states that, at present, the Spanish demographic shows an aging population with a tendency to increase in the next twenty years. Diseases accumulate in the elderly and multiple diseases in the same person become more frequent.”

The statement adds that “health professionals, and more specifically doctors, are no strangers to this aging process, and a large number of retirements are expected in the coming years. Added to this is the tendency of many professionals to migrate to other countries. These conditions cause a general shortage In doctors in our country with difficulty filling vacancies.”

It also states that “An aging population, multiple diseases, and a shortage of physicians make it increasingly necessary for professionals with diverse knowledge and adaptable to the changing conditions of today’s world. Any fragmentation of knowledge areas with the creation of new specialties runs counter to this need and may jeopardize the future care of the population” .

Cross-sectional areas of knowledge

The document confirms thatSome areas of knowledge, such as emergencies and infectious diseases, are cross-sectional and inherent to all medical disciplines. Other very specific areas may be overtaken in the future by advances in medicine as new treatments and diagnostic procedures emerge and that “professionals currently working in specific cognitive areas such as emergencies and infectious diseases need to structured training They deserve professional recognition.”

In the same way, she asserts that “in addition, clinicians who dedicate themselves to them must have a specific knowledge broader than that which they received during their training as specialists” and that “in the event of future changes in the epidemiology of diseases or developments in knowledge that make their participation Expendable, they should be allowed to devote themselves to their primary primary discipline.”

Specific core training areas

According to the Five Societies, “This will only be possible if specific areas of training are established. In addition, these specific areas of training must not conflict with the program of the disciplines from which they arose.”

For all of the above, and “given that the creation of new medical specialties should lead to the necessary pre-thinking of the health model,” the signatory associations request “the creation of specific training areas for infectious diseases, emergencies and emergencies.”