The Algarve Local Health Unit (ULSALG) began the year 2025 by welcoming 202 intern doctors, who chose the Algarve health units to carry out their medical internship in various areas of medicine.
At the welcome ceremony, which took place on January 3rd at Quinta do Sobral, in Castro Marim, the chairman of the board of directors, Tiago Botelho, left the new interns with a challenge: “demand, challenge, invite, summon, question your tutors, confront them, because that is where progress and knowledge come from, contact with different ideas and the demand to do better”.
The chairman of the board of directors also assured that he was available to monitor continuous improvement, highlighting that in “the Algarve we do the best that is done in the country and in the entire world”, pointing to the two new surgical robots from the ULS of the Algarve – one for the Hospital of Faro and the other for the Hospital of Portimão – as a commitment to technology at the service of health in the Algarve region.
Francisco Amaral, Mayor of Castro Marim, the municipality hosting this reception, referred to the importance of joint work between local authorities and health entities and the need for a stronger focus on preventive medicine in the country, ending with an invitation to interns to stay and develop their professional activity in the region.
Ana Paula Silva and executive director Ana Marreiros also attended the ceremony, alongside the director of pharmaceutical services, Brigitte Viegas.
Also present were the vice-president of the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR), Elsa Cordeiro, the head of the Regional Commission for General and Family Medicine Internship, Helena Boavida, and the representative of the Portuguese Medical Association, Eunice Capelo.
132 interns will be completing general training, in order to deepen their knowledge in different clinical contexts.
The remaining intern doctors, those completing specialized training, have been placed in units in the region in the following specialties: General and Family Medicine (26), Public Health (1), Anesthesiology (2), Cardiology (1), General Surgery (2), Gastroenterology (2), Gynecology/Obstetrics (3), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (5), Intensive Medicine (2), Internal Medicine (7), Nephrology (1), Neurosurgery (1), Neurology (1), Neuroradiology (1), Oncology (2), Otorhinolaryngology (1), Clinical Pathology (1), Pediatrics (2), Pulmonology (2), Psychiatry (3), Radiology (2), Rheumatology (1) and Urology (1).
According to the Algarve Local Health Unit, the “number of intern doctors in the Algarve has been gradually increasing since 2023”.
Source https://www.algarveprimeiro.com/ - photo Castro Marim câmara
