How many and which physicians? A comparative study of the evolution of the supply of physicians and specialist training in Brazil and Spain

Table 2 Distribution of medical specialists and medical resident students according to selected specialties in Spain and Brazil, 2017

Specialties	Spain						Brazil
Specialties	Medical specialists¹	Percentage	D²	Medical resident students³	Percentage⁴	D⁵	Medical specialists¹	Percentage	D²	Medical resident students³	Percentage⁴	D⁵
Family medicine and community	42 465	24.1	91.3	6 693	24.4	14.4	5 486	1.4	2.6	1 554	4.4	0.7
Pediatrics	11 388	6.5	24.5	1 612	5.9	3.5	39 234	10.3	18.9	3 448	9.8	1.7
Internal medicine/clinics	8 027	4.5	17.2	1 546	5.6	3.3	42 728	11.2	20.6	4 466	12.7	2.1
Anesthesiology	7 914	4.5	17.0	1 245	4.5	2.7	23 021	6.0	11.1	2 579	7.3	1.2
Gynecology and obstetrics	7 448	4.2	16.0	984	3.6	2.1	30 415	8.0	14.6	3 018	8.6	1.4
Orthopedics and traumatology	6 289	3.6	13.5	1 123	4.1	2.4	15 598	4.1	7.5	2 292	6.5	1.1
Psychiatry	5 780	3.3	12.4	901	3.3	1.9	10 396	2.7	5.0	1 448	4.1	0.7
Radiology	5 123	2.9	11.0	843	3.1	1.8	12 233	3.2	5.9	1 290	3.7	0.6
General surgery	5 212	3.0	11.2	887	3.2	1.9	34 065	8.9	16.4	2 895	8.2	1.4
Ophthalmology	4 749	2.7	10.2	664	2.4	1.4	13 825	3.6	6.7	1 173	3.3	0.6
Cardiology	3 568	2.0	7.7	766	2.8	1.6	15 516	4.1	7.5	1 073	3.1	0.5
Neurology	2 512	1.4	5.4	486	1.8	1.0	5 104	1.3	2.5	826	2.3	0.4
Urology	2 298	1.3	4.9	469	1.7	1.0	5 328	1.4	2.6	521	1.5	0.2
Dermatology	2 135	1.2	4.6	311	1.1	0.7	8 317	2.2	4.0	647	1.8	0.3
Otolaryngology	2 628	1.5	5.6	312	1.1	0.7	6 373	1.7	3.1	588	1.7	0.3
Neurosurgery	846	0.5	1.8	175	0.6	0.4	3 298	0.9	1.6	538	1.5	0.3
Plastic surgery	1 160	0.7	2.5	174	0.6	0.4	6 304	1.7	3.0	439	1.2	0.2
Other specialties⁶	56 884	32.2	122.3	8 211	30.2	17.6	10 4265	27.3	50.2	6 383	18.1	3.1
Total	176 426	100.0	379.2	27 402	100.0	58.9	381 506	100.0	183.7	35 178	100.0	16.94

Sources: Spain : Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Organización Médica Colegial de España (OMC), Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad; Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Ministério da Educação (MEC). Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM)
¹Number of medical specialists registered in 2017
²Density of medical specialists per 100 000 inhabitants
³Number of medical resident students per specialty in 2017
⁴Percentage of medical resident students over the total of medical residency posts for a given specialty
⁵Density of resident students per 100 000 inhabitants
⁶Others: 35 specialties out of 52 in Spain and 37 out of 54 specialties in Brazil

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