"Good riddance." The Ural Doctors' Union wasn't worried about the outflow of medical students due to the mandatory service requirement.

      The chairman of the Sverdlovsk Region’s healthcare workers’ trade union, Sergey Ugrinov, commented to 66.RU on the predicted outflow of people wanting to receive medical education after the introduction of mandatory service in state hospitals for graduates.

      As Tagilcity.ru writes, the innovation will likely cause applicants next year to lose interest in applying to medical universities, and will also push some students to consider withdrawing voluntarily.

      However, the chairman of the Sverdlovsk healthcare workers’ union, Sergey Ugrinov, told 66.RU that such a culling would make the medical profession more resilient and would have a positive effect on the quality of medical care in the future.

      “We will get rid of those students who come thinking only about earning money. We don’t need people like that in the healthcare system. Especially not for patients. Of course, we are trying to influence wage levels so that medical staff and doctors earn enough. But medicine is not only about money,” Ugrinov told 66.RU.

      The portal’s interlocutor sees the reason for the shortage of doctors in the region in two factors: the training being too long (compared with the past) and the leaving of medicine by those who, upon entering, did not fully understand the specifics of the profession they chose.