Efficiency versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain : A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model

Jeffrey E. Harris, Beatriz G. López-Valcárcel, Patricia Barber, Vicente Ortún

Background. In Spain's "MIR" system of allocating residency training positions, medical school graduates are ranked according to their performance on a national exam and then sequentially choose from the remaining available training slots. We studied how changes in the MIR system might address the inadequate supply of practitioners of family and community medicine in that country

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Year of publication:	February 2014
Authors:	Harris, Jeffrey E.
Other Persons:	González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz (contributor) ; Barber, Patricia (contributor) ; Ortún Rubio, Vicente (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Spanien \| Spain \| Gesundheitspolitik \| Health policy \| Diskrete Entscheidung \| Discrete choice \| Simulation \| Allokationseffizienz \| Allocative efficiency \| Gerechtigkeit \| Justice \| Absolventen \| Graduates \| Praktikum \| Internship \| Medizin \| Medical sciences \| Wohnstandortwahl \| Residential choice
Description of contents:	Conclusions: Policies designed to increase the prestige and remuneration of practitioners of family and community medicine have the potential to be more efficient and equitable than other alternatives

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w19896
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w19896 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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