November 6, 2024

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

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

More doctors in Brazil – Image: André Ávila / Agência RBS

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:

  • Contract duration (three to four years)
  • – Possibility of maternity leave (six months) and paternity leave (20 days)
  • – Specialization in family and community medicine and the possibility of obtaining a master’s degree in family health

the program

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.

Registration rules

  • – Obtaining a medical certificate qualified to practice the profession. For foreigners, it is necessary to obtain a permit to work abroad;
  • – No pending criminal cases either in the federal judiciary or a state judge, in the past six months;
  • – for Brazilians, to be in good standing with military obligations; that it
  • – They have no pending cases in the Electoral Court.
  • – who is currently participating in the program;
  • – He is currently participating in the Doctors for Brazil program;
  • – of those who participated in the program and were dismissed for non-compliance with the rules; that it
  • – For those who left the program less than 180 days ago.

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