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Apr. 27, 2021 3:35 PM
For the south, the numbers are grim. Israelis there have to suffice with 2.1 doctors per thousand people, compared with 5.3 in Tel Aviv. Only 18 percent of the pediatricians in the Negev are graduates of Israeli medical schools.
And of the physicians who began practicing in the south in 2019, 56 percent were trained in countries whose medical schools, starting in 2026, won t be recognized if their graduates want to become doctors in Israel.
Moreover, those numbers in the south, the worst in Israel, reflect a national trend expected to worsen in the next decade and a half, with all outlying areas the laggards, a new study shows.
Israel may suffer a crippling doctor shortage in 15 years, ministry says
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