The most important recommendations of the health workforce conference
His Excellency Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq Bin Fawzan Al Rabiah confirmed that the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties is doing professional and professional work and has a great credit in developing performance among health practitioners since its inception until now, and we are working to complete the career of professional work. His Excellency, in a speech delivered at the conference on the reality of the Saudi health workforce during the next ten years organized by the Specialization Authority yesterday, mentioned the efforts of the distinguished and powerful in setting up workshops that discussed the reality of the Saudi health workforce, in advance thanks to the Secretary-General of the Specialization Authority and all who participated in these workshops .
For his part, the Secretary-General of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, Dr. Ayman bin Asaad Abdo, indicated that the Kingdom is on the verge of a major transformation in the health field, and the human factor will be the most important factor for its success, indicating that access to high efficiency among health practitioners needs concerted efforts and coordination between all the competent authorities.
The conference discussed a number of axes related to the outputs of bachelor''s programs with the needs of the labor market during the next ten years, career opportunities available to students expected to graduate during the next ten years for graduates of the bachelor''s stage, and the need and opportunities for enrollment in specialized graduate studies programs inside and outside the Kingdom.
In the conference, the authority reviewed the recommendations made by the participants in the workshops to study the reality of the workforce for the five health fields (medicine and surgery, dental medicine and surgery, pharmacy, applied medical science, nursing).
The recommendations covered two main axes: the first (qualification for undergraduate and postgraduate studies), and the second (job opportunities).
The first axis (qualification for undergraduate and postgraduate studies) focused on encouraging partnership between universities and the private sector in the field of clinical training during the concession period to introduce graduates to the nature of work in them and introduce the private sector to graduates with the establishment of specific criteria to ensure the quality of training, and the creation of membership programs or diplomas with the Saudi Authority for Specializations Health to qualify as a deputy doctor’s degree in a number of health specialties so that some of them allow on-the-job training, and emphasis on governmental and private health training agencies to cooperate with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and also review the requirements of D training centers with the Authority to allow the granting of strong training centers, greater powers and privileges in the implementation of programs according to international standards to ensure the quality of output.
The participants pointed out the necessity of setting incentives for the trainers participating in the training process in graduate studies programs, in addition to enhancing the role of the pivotal education evaluation committee in monitoring and evaluating the performance of health colleges on an ongoing and regular basis and taking appropriate measures to ensure the improvement of outputs, in addition to the establishment of a national committee with High representation of coordination between universities and the various governmental and private health sectors in the Kingdom in determining the actual needs for numbers and specializations required by the labor market and coordination between all parties to achieve a match between the actual need and education programs M and training.
With regard to the second axis (job opportunities), they stressed the importance of linking data for all health practitioners looking for work in the national portal to work and updating them periodically, and offering incentives to encourage graduates to work in the peripheral cities and villages in the Kingdom, and the availability of support programs by the Human Resources Development Fund for facilities wishing to employ Saudi doctors according to the conditions of the programs approved by the Fund, and that the Human Resources Fund establish a training program in cooperation with the ancient health colleges in the Kingdom to prepare graduates and provide them with the necessary skills to work in the private sector, in addition to
Implementation of the annual national survey to cover the real need and follow-up indicators of occupational exposure to the various specializations of medicine and surgery headquarters from the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and benefit the relevant authorities.
