Assistència Sanitària hands out 31 Covid-19 internships to healthcare professionals
In spite of the current healthcare situation caused by the pandemic, the 2019-20 academic year equalled the record of candidates and recorded 458 applications.
The Assistència Sanitària Internship Programme, in its twelfth edition, has adapted to the current healthcare situation and, in spite of the exceptionality and the interruption of some courses, in the 2019-20 academic year the previous year’s record of candidates was equalled, with 458 applications. As a result of the selection process, grants valued at 30,155 euros have been given to 31 students on masters or postgraduate courses in the health field. In accordance with the terms and conditions, this time profiles devoted to areas that are directly or indirectly linked to the management, care and treatment of Covid-19 have been valued. With the coronavirus emergency, the need to promote continuous improvement has become even more obvious to apply the new treatments, drugs and therapies, ensuring they are up-to-date with the latest advances.
In the current context, the university community and organisations such as the College of Physicians are asking for the recognition of the importance of their work and the involvement of all the agents who look after healthcare. Assistència Sanitària, as an organisation formed by doctors following the healthcare cooperative model, included the message back in 2008 and took it as its own, starting up an internship programme that has both medical and academic acknowledgement due to its financial endowment and the strictness of the student selection process.
As he emphasised during the diploma presentation ceremony, Dr. Ignacio Orce, Chairman of Assistència Sanitària, “the initiative arose from the wish to boost knowledge up-dating by healthcare professionals as a contribution to the improvement of the Catalan health system, but also as a special recognition for the nursing profession, whose work is essential for good medical care. From all the points of view, the balance of these twelve editions is positive: 2,945 applications have been received; 369 internships have been handed out and around 350,000 euros have been awarded.”
From the Knowledge Promotion Programme, in 2020 Assistència Sanitària has also renewed the agreement for 18 young men and women, who had to abandon their studies due to armed conflicts in their countries of origin, to continue their studies in Catalan universities.
