Resident wages after public consultation

The Ministry of Health proposed in the draft ordinance that residents in priority areas should earn PLN 6,942 gross in the first two years, and PLN 7,211 after two years. In other areas, it will be PLN 6,739 and PLN 7,076, respectively.

Doctors from the Zielona Góra Agreement Federation drew attention to very slight differences between the priority and other specializations. - If we are to stimulate the choice of priority specializations through higher salaries, the regulation of the minister of health does not have this effect, because the difference at the level of PLN 100-200 does not affect professional decisions. Therefore, remuneration for residents of the areas that we treat as a priority should be radically increased, and the difference must not decrease after two years - they indicated. The medical self-government recalled, in turn, that the remuneration of residents “still differs from the postulates of the medical community that have been repeatedly reported. The increase in remuneration of medical staff, including doctors and dentists specializing in residency, is still too slow and does not ensure remuneration of these people at a level corresponding to their knowledge and competences ”. On the other hand, the National Board of the Nationwide Trade Union of Physicians reminds that the position of HRM and the medical self-government remains unchanged. Both organizations expect the base salary of a resident physician to be the equivalent of two average salaries in the economy.

The former president of the NRL, a provincial consultant in the field of surgery, prog. Andrzej Matyja, who emphasized that the remuneration of doctors and dentists in Poland should not deviate from European standards and the solution to the problem would be the statutory definition of a fast path to the expected minimum remuneration levels for doctors and dentists.

The Conference of Rectors of Academic Medical Universities proposed to "by the way" consider the option of excluding residents who are in residence on the basis of employment contracts from other benefits due to full-time employees under other laws or internal regulations of the units (e.g. additional annual remuneration, the so-called thirteen). - There is no substantive justification for the entity conducting the specialization training employing the resident physician to incur additional residency costs, which should be financed by the minister of health from the state budget, solely due to the form of specialization training for resident doctors imposed by the act - we read in the report from consultation.

The Ministry of Health rejected all submitted comments, stressing that the postulates concerning the amount of remuneration of residents were included in the act on minimum wages in healthcare entities. - At the same time, it should be noted that when setting the remuneration rates for residents (doctors in the course of specialization), we cannot exceed the remuneration of a doctor with a specialization, which was already agreed at the stage of consultation of the draft law on the lowest salary.