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