The new Hospital da Luz podcast program, a series of episodes about the medical internships at Hospital da Luz, is now online. ‘Quase Especialista’ invites intern doctors and their tutors at Hospital da Luz, to tell their experience, explain how their internship in a private hospital works and advise future colleagues on what they should consider when choosing a specialty and a service for your postgraduate training. The series of episodes of this new Hospital da Luz podcast program begins with two special guests – Hospital da Luz Lisboa doctors Anabela Raimundo and Alexandra Baião Horta, respectively current and former coordinator of this program in the Luz Saúde group -, who tell the story of the internship at Hospital da Luz and talk about their own experience as tutors. Then, in each episode of ‘Quase Especialista’, we get to know, one by one, the areas where Hospital da Luz has training suitability. And always in the first person, with an intern and his tutor giving voice to the story of their experience. Episodes about internships in anesthesiology, neurology, medical oncology, internal medicine, pathological anatomy, general surgery, and nuclear medicine are now available online. But others will soon follow on pediatrics, intensive medicine, endocrinology, physical and rehabilitation medicine, pulmonology, and radiology, thus completing the 13 specialties where Hospital da Luz has, for now, the training suitability to receive intern doctors. Now, more than 30 interns spread across the medical and surgical specialties are undergoing postgraduate training at the Hospital da Luz Network. In total, Hospital da Luz has trained around 20 specialists since its internship program began in 2013. For an informed choice After several years of studies and after the results of the serial exam are known, young doctors have the opportunity to choose and study in depth their preferred area of Medicine, with the choice of the clinical specialty in which they will practice for the rest of their career. professional life. This choice may not be easy. And for numerous reasons: it can be made difficult by the grade you obtain in the entrance exam; because you are not sure which area of medicine you prefer; or even because they do not know well enough about the services or hospitals where they will spend the next five or six years of their professional life. Therefore, it is essential that it is based on objective information about, on the one hand, what each specialty is and involves in terms of knowledge, work intensity and demands, and, on the other, about the conditions of the institutions where this stage of medical training will be completed. With this new podcast, which is aimed especially at recently graduated doctors looking for the right specialty and hospital, Hospital da Luz makes its contribution so that this choice is properly informed and so that this stage of doctors' training is so stimulating and rich, as future generations of these health professional’s hope. ‘Quase Especialista’, the new section of the Hospital da Luz podcast, is available on all audio streaming platforms and on YouTube.
