Government releases public notice of 5,900 vacancies for new ‘More Doctors’ scheme | Policy

The federal government launched the public notice for the More Doctors Program, on Monday (22). There will be 5970 vacancies distributed in 1994 Brazilian municipalities. Registration begins on Friday (26th), and the deadline runs until May 31st.

The first priority is to hire Brazilian professionals trained in the country. But doctors trained abroad, whether they are Brazilian-born or foreign, will also be invited, but in the remaining vacancies.

According to the government, the open public notice is for “reorder vacancies from the past four years”. In addition, a thousand of these vacancies will serve the Amazon region.

Each training grant awarded by the program is worth R$12,386.50 for a period of 48 months, extendable for the same period.

The government expects selection to take place in June and at the end of the month, professionals will start working in the selected areas.

Selection will be made through an evaluation of the candidates’ curricula, with scores for each additional training or prior experience with a physician. Each candidate can score 90 points in total.

“The new House of Medicine offers approximately 6,000 places in the program and for those who participate they have the opportunity to ensure training in family and community medicine. Our goal is for professionals registered in Brazil to fill the vacancies that are offered and that is why we thought in many incentive strategies.

The government wants the program to have 28,000 doctors serving the country by the end of the year.

Among the novelties in the new notice:

Mais Médicos was created in 2013, during the government of former President Dilma Rousseff. Currently, the program has more than 8,000 clinicians.

The government estimates that “about 45% of job vacancies are in areas of social vulnerability”. This year alone, 117 physicians have been sent to work in Indigenous Health Districts (DSEIS), such as those in Yanomami territory.