As shared by the General Secretary of the General Council of Physicians (CGCOM), José María Rodríguez Vicente, the number of doctors asking to cancel their membership has decreased with the intention of working abroad.

“Issuance of this certificate does not mean that a number of these professionals must have gone overseas. In fact, less than 15 per cent of registered doctors end up starting the deregistration process in Spain.”

He last year, 358 doctors resigned from associations in Spain after requesting a certificate of conformity issued by the General Council of Physicians, according to data recorded by the secretary general of medical companies, the figure shows a 10% decrease compared to the previous year.

“Less than 15 percent of registered doctors end up starting the process of deregistration in Spain”

“Even though a Certificate of Conformity is essential to work outside of our country, Not all requests made by doctors meet this goalThis document is also needed for various procedures,” he said.

In this sense, Rodríguez Vicente emphasizes the importance of analyzing all data and statistics when talking about spain doctor flights to be able to transfer photographs as “as realistic as possible” to the profession and society as a whole.

TOTAL 1,186 WITHDRAWAL FROM REGISTRATIONS SINCE 2019

in the last four years A total of 1,186 withdrawals from professional associations were registered who have submitted a certificate of conformity. So that in 2019 as many as 433 members resigned, in 2020 no one resigned due to the pandemic; 395 in 2021 and finally 358 last year.

The General Council of Physicians, which is in charge of awarding these certificates to professionals with a validity period of three months, issued in 2022 as many as 4,614 certificates requested by 2,769 applicantswhere 2,669 are students.

The General Medical Council is in charge of issuing certificates of conformity, which are valid for three months

This data assumes an increase of 10.5 percent over the previous year in terms of the number of professionals and 11.7 percent related to the number of certificates issued. The figures recorded in the previous year confirm the trend of increasing the number of existing applications since 2011, without counting 2020, which was marked by a pandemic.

In Catalonia, a total of 1,126 certificates were issued (24% of the total), of which 984 were from the province of Barcelona, ​​\u200b\u200b71 from Girona, 53 from Lleida and 70 from Tarragona. For its part, in Community of Madrid, a total of 840 documents requested (18%).

WORK IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THE MAIN REASON

A 71% of certificates issued are for working abroad (3,283), 15% intended to carry out administrative procedures (687), 11% to participate in collaborative projects (524) and 3% for academic reasons (120).

That The applicant’s preferred destination is France (610), UK (384), Ireland (358), Italy (214) and Germany (189). Among non-European destinations, the most requested was Argentina (219), followed by the United Arab Emirates (172).

On the other hand, Family medicine is the specialty that requires the most certificates (308). This is followed by Ophthalmology (136), Anesthesiology and Resuscitation (130) and Pediatrics and its specific areas (103).

The profile is showing a young woman with training in Family and Community Medicine who is working in a hospital setting and who has chosen to go to France for work

That Applicant profile: young person from the hospital environment. 56% of applicants belong to hospital settings (3023) and 12% to Primary Care (883). In addition, most of the certificates (44%) were issued to persons under 36 years of age and only 19%, to persons over 51 years.

Finally, female applicants more than male. The number of female applicants was 1,464 (53%), while the male applicants were 1,305 (47%).

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