Sergio Rezende

In spite of that strong growth, 67,626 of the 87,063 doctors graduated in those twelve years, that is to say 77.7 percent, one formed in universities of the Southeast of the country, richest and populated with Brazil. In the northeast, the poorest region, hardly it counts on the 9.7 percent of the doctors, percentage far beyond the 1.4 percent of 2006. Minister of Science and Tecnologa, Sergio Rezende, said today that, to surpass that inequality, the government will start up east year a project that, by means of the interchange of professionals, associates programs of doctorate of the poorest regions with those of richest. " The first title of doctor in Brazil was granted 40 years ago. But we have advanced much in the last years: most of those that formed 15 years in the last are used, mainly in the universities but an increasing number in industrias" , it affirmed the minister. According to the study of the Ministry, the 76.77 percent of the Brazilian doctors is used in the sector education, 11.06 pro one hundred in the public administration, a 3.78 percent in professional activities of science and technology and a 3.0 percent in the health. Until the 2003 men they were majority between the doctors, but after that year that position was conquered by the women. Of the doctors who defended their thesis in 2008, the 51.5 percent era of feminine sex and the 48.5 masculine percent.

" One is an important advance if we considered that in countries as Japan the women as soon as they represent the 25 percent of the doctors and in Belgium that percentage is of the 33 percent " , Rezende said. In spite of those advances, the doctors as soon as they represent the 0.07 percent of the Brazilian population. The minister also talked about the necessity to increase the number of doctors in races like nuclear engineering, space technology, sciences of the sea and Amazonia so that " they take care of the increasing needs of Brazil in these reas".