The interns taking their subspecialties in 2021 gave the highest rating to the postgraduate training at Hospital da Luz Lisboa, in response to a survey carried out by the National Council of Medical Internship (CNIM). Hospital da Luz Lisboa was, thus, ranked first among the health institutions with educational competence, that were evaluated last year by interns. Promoted by the National Council of Medical Internship, the survey was destined to the over eight thousand interns taking their subspecialties in 2021. The respondents were asked to rate the training in the health units where they were taking their subspecialty internship, with the purpose of “evaluating and rating the level of global satisfaction with the specialized training internship”, including the characterization of the level of satisfaction by specialty, by region and by institution. The interns in training at Hospital da Luz gave it a 4.57 rating (on a scale of 0 to 5), well above the national global average result of 3.56 (englobing the hospitals in the country with medical services competent to train specialists), putting Hospital da Luz Lisboa in the first place, among the institutions evaluated by the interns. In second place, was Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, which until January 2022 was run in a public-private partnership by Luz Saúde, with an average rating of 4.19. “Meeting all the requirements of each subspecialty internship, the postgraduate training at Hospital da Luz Lisboa has particular features”, states Alexandra Bayão Horta, the director of Medical Internship at Hospital da Luz Lisboa. “The way we integrate our interns and engage them, in their daily work as in projects of research and innovation, always with a focus on the patient and a better healthcare, makes all the difference. And we know that is the reason for better results in training”, she adds. Rui Maio, the clinical director of Hospital da Luz reminds, for that matter, that this “is the first private university hospital in Portugal to integrate one of the academic clinical centres in the country”. And he further states: “We have the dimension, competence and differentiation necessary to be able to say, with pride and certainty, that we are a great Portuguese hospital. We bet on innovation and technological differentiation at the service of Medicine. We invest in medical training at all levels, establishing protocols with several medical faculties and ensuring, already, postgraduate training competence to 34 interns, in over a dozen medical specialties”, he explains. This is the distinctive feature, he adds, that “makes Hospital da Luz stand out, in particular in postgraduate training, as evidenced by this CNIM survey”. Medical internship – Satisfaction survey 2021
