Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021 Oct 1;10(10):664-666. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.218.
Brugha et al provide convincing evidence that Ireland stills need to overcome many hurdles, including poor training and working experiences in Irish hospitals, before it can significantly improve its record on doctor retention. The findings reported by Brugha et al are particularly disappointing in light of the fact that Ireland implemented a doctor retention strategy in early 2015. Ultimately, doctor retention is important because it can help alleviate the health workforce shortages that many countries face currently and that are projected to worsen over the next decade. The purpose of this commentary is to highlight two additional strategies for alleviating health workforce shortages - expanding medical education and task shifting.
布鲁加等人提供了令人信服的证据，表明爱尔兰仍需克服许多障碍，包括爱尔兰医院培训和工作经验不足，然后才能显著改善其医生留用记录。考虑到爱尔兰在 2015 年初实施了一项医生留用策略，布鲁加等人报告的调查结果尤其令人失望。最终，医生留用很重要，因为它可以帮助缓解许多国家目前面临的卫生人力短缺问题，并预计在未来十年内会恶化。本评论的目的是强调缓解卫生人力短缺的另外两项策略——扩大医学教育和任务转移。
