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Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Habima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)
September 3, 2023, 11:55 pm
Shorter medical resident shifts go into effect in hospitals in country’s peripheries
Critics say agreement between Finance Ministry and Israeli Medical Center Association on trainees’ salary and hours should not be implemented without sufficient manpower in place
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Habima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)
August 10, 2023, 2:19 pm
More than a third of young Israeli doctors say they plan to leave country soon
Tired of difficult work conditions and fed up with political and economic woes, 38% of medical residents indicate a lot would have to change to prevent them from relocating
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 18, 2023, 6:07 pm
Israel Medical Association announces 2-hour ‘warning strike’ for Wednesday morning
Medical residents’ organization, nurses’ group, and IDF Medical Corps reserves join in call to take major steps to oppose government’s judicial legislation
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions on HaBima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 12, 2022, 11:58 pm
Medical residents rescind resignation threat as Lapid intervenes to shorten shifts
PM mediates deal to prepare to reduce shifts to 16 hours in outlying areas, though all hospitals can go ahead now if they can manage the shorter hours
By ToI Staff
Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Habima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)
September 12, 2022, 11:23 am
Medical residents delay threatened resignations: Negotiators making ‘serious effort’
For 2nd time in week, move postponed as talks to shorten 26-hour shifts continue; health minister: Treasury’s approach is ‘totally destructive to Israeli society’
By Ash Obel
Dr. Rey Biton (second from right), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)
August 25, 2022, 11:56 am
‘Nothing to lose’: 200 medical residents resign in protest of 26-hour shifts
2-year dispute was reignited after government delayed plans to shorten shifts; more residents threaten to join mass exodus every week; health minister blames Treasury
By ToI Staff and Ash Obel
Dr. Rey Biton (second from right), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)
August 3, 2022, 6:52 am
Slamming government, medical residents reject compromise offer on shortened shifts
Trainee doctors protest state’s postponement of plan to gradually reduce hospital shift hours from 26 to 18
By ToI Staff
Dr. Rey Biton (center), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)
August 1, 2022, 4:44 pm
Medical residents threaten mass resignations after plan to shorten shifts delayed
Postponement sparks fresh protest among trainee doctors; chair of residents organization says government ‘failed both professionally and morally’
By ToI Staff
Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Tel Aviv, October 9, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 31, 2022, 5:09 pm
Plan to slash medical residents’ 26-hour shifts delayed until September 2023
Burden of 26-hour shifts drove thousands of trainee doctors to threaten resignation last year; promised change to 18 hours was never implemented
By ToI Staff
Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions in Tel Aviv, on October 9, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 17, 2021, 3:20 pm
Medical interns delay mass resignation as officials prepare new work hours plan
Action postponed for 24 hours after Health Ministry says it will present updated offer on reducing workload following rejection of previous plan by doctors-in-training
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions in Tel Aviv on October 9, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 9, 2021, 10:47 pm
Hundreds of medical interns rally in Tel Aviv amid fight over workload
TV report says Health Ministry moving forward on plan to shorten shifts, despite interns rejecting the proposal as insufficient
By ToI Staff
Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions outside the Health Ministry in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 8, 2021, 9:09 am
Health Ministry chief: Medical interns’ 26-hour shifts to be shortened gradually
After 2,500 quit, Nachman Ash says he understands the doctors-in-training had greater hopes from negotiations but says not all fixes can be implemented immediately
By ToI Staff
Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions outside the Tel Aviv District Health Office, October 7, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 7, 2021, 5:12 pm
Over 2,500 medical interns resign in labor dispute over 26-hour shifts
In letter to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, intern organization says it is everyone’s interest that patients in hospitals not be treated by ‘exhausted’ and ‘unfocused’ doctors
By ToI Staff
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