MEC publishes new rules for medical courses under judicial review; look what they are

The ordinance establishes that the vacancies meet the criteria of the Mais Médicos program

OR Ministry of Education (MEC) published this Tuesday, the 26th, an ordinance to adapt the new courses Medicinal and the expansion of places in existing courses, established by court decision, according to the criteria established by the program More Doctors.

In October, the MEC issued a notice to open 5,700 new medical jobs in the country in private institutions based on the requirements of the federal program. Now, the ordinance published by the government establishes that requests to open courses under judicial review must meet the same criteria, such as the number of beds in the city of the course and the demand for doctors in the region. With the decision, legal requests that have not passed the initial documentation phase are automatically suspended.

In 2018, a moratorium instituted by the government of former president Michel Temer banned the opening of new medical courses for five years on the grounds that it was necessary to control the quality of medical training, which had seen an exponential increase in the number of courses .

During the moratorium, in effect until April this year, thousands of educational institutions managed to open courses at the request of the courts. A decision by the Minister of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), Gilmar Mendes, issued in August, however established that from then on the opening of new vacancies must meet the criteria of the Mais Médicos programme, but established that requests opening date Legal proceedings that had already passed the document analysis phase could continue in progress.

According to the MEC, the department will consider requests that are found in the regions already selected in the call for authorization of new courses, published in October and which already meet the criteria of social necessity. The notice establishes that the opening of vacant positions will be authorized in municipalities where the concentration of doctors per thousand inhabitants is less than 3.73. The number is the average number of doctors in the countries in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the goal that Brazilian municipalities will have to achieve by 2033.

Among the decisions taken is to consider the request for local doctors, a minimum number of five SUS beds per vacancy to carry out practical lessons; existence of urgent and emergency beds in the region; hospital with more than 80 beds certifiable as suitable for teaching.

The rules also establish that new courses activated at the request of the court must have a minimum of 40 places and a maximum of 60. In the case of educational institutions that have applied to the court to increase the number of places, the limit will be equal to 30% more than the number of places available. Medical vacancies already authorized for that institution. The MEC emphasizes that courses cannot have more than 240 places per year.

Another criterion for authorizing the opening of new vacancies is that the course has a grade of 4 in the MEC’s ​​Course Concept (CC), which varies from 1 to 5. The evaluation is carried out in person by technicians from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep).

“The course sponsor must submit a Term of Membership signed by the local SUS manager, committing to offer the necessary structure for the implementation and operation of the course, through financial compensation. This must correspond to 10% of the expected gross annual revenue for the course or due to the increase in vacancies”, explains a statement released on Tuesday afternoon by the MEC.

Source: Terra

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