471. Diário Digital / Lusa interview Chairman of the Dentists (Part 1: Interview)

Dental Association

says there are vacancies in excess

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The Dental Association today said the excessive vacancies in higher education, because of the labor market is almost exclusively private in Portugal, where the ratio is above the European professionals. We currently have a ratio of one dentist to 1,339 people, about 7,200 dentists with an average age of 34/35 years. It is a very young class, where you will feel renewed too late and have an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent, the Lusa news agency said President Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

For the specialist, there are already schools of dentistry in excess (seven), almost the same number of medical schools, where there are several specialties. So you see the hype, the doctor said, adding that are currently registered in more than 500 foreign dentists to practice in the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and other European countries, most young people without the possibility of placement in the labor market in Portugal.

Moreover, unlike other countries, these professionals carry on business almost exclusively in private, then warns that the true ratio should be divided by two, since more than half the population has no access to dental care. Unless the mechanism of dental check, even with a small size, in Portugal there is no dentists in public, as elsewhere, he said.

Thus, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, represent that Portugal has an excess of doctors and dentists about the same number of colleges in England and other countries with a higher dimension. We were very disappointed to see that the places for dentistry to maintain or increase slightly, in an area that needed more doctors are not criticized.

In total, seven colleges offer 557 seats: 60 in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Lisbon, 80 in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Porto, Coimbra 42, 100 at the Higher Institute of Health Sciences North, 65 in the Higher Institute of Sciences Egas Moniz, Portuguese Catholic University on 75 and 95 in Fernando Pessoa.

The vacancies have not risen much, about 4 / 5 percent, but it was what one would expect a decrease, if not done because we still have people on unemployment or underemployment, he said. Moreover, last year there have already been licensed to leave early from college, with the reduction of the course from six to five years, according to the Bologna Process.

We will continue to have many people in training is the most expensive in Portugal to leave the country to practice, taking advantage of other countries that the investment is made in the training of highly qualified technicians, said.

More graduates yes, but there must be planning to not have problems in the future, maintained, referring to the declarations of the Minister of Higher Education, Mariano Gago, under which Portugal has half of the graduates should have, compared to other developed countries.

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