Programa Médicos pelo Brasil: mérito e equidade

The Medicos pelo Brasil Program (PMPB) was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Health with the objective to expand the supply of medical services in places of difficult provision or high vulnerability. The main changes proposed in the PMPB are: mandatory registration with the Federal Council of Medicine; allocation of vacancies with priority for small and distant cities, hiring of professionals via national labor legislation and qualified training in Family Medicine (FM), allowing the doctor’s speciality certification after two years. With these changes, it is expected to deepen the internalization of professionals, with effective possibility of fixation, in addition to training in scale in FM. Training through residency will also be promoted, with municipal financial incentives for this purpose, aligned with the actions of the new federal financing of Primary Health Care (PHC), the Previne Brasil Program. The PMPB will be executed by the Agency for the Development of Primary Health Care (Adaps), an innovative management model that will bring efficiency to the program. With these characteristics, the PMPB intends to offer a solution for the provision of medical services within the PHC of the Brazilian Public Health System.