Medical personnel of the Moscow region: key characteristics and employers’ requirements

Abstract

Based on available statistical data, the key characteristics of the medical personnel of the Moscow area – both Moscow and the Moscow region – are described. The analysis of the labor market in the healthcare sector of the Moscow area is carried out through the prism of “forms of ownership of a medical institution” (public and private) and “type of medical institution” (outpatient and hospital). Based on the data of content analysis of job advertisements posted by employers on the hh.ru resource, the authors reveal requirements that are announced to doctors by employers and the conditions offered to potential employees in public and private medical institutions. Private clinics focus on more comfortable working conditions, additional benefits and guarantees, career opportunities, however, the requirements that they present to doctors are much higher than at public medical institutions. That, in turn, allows a private employer to be in a more advantageous position in the labor market, competitive in the fight for highly qualified medical workers. Employers in the healthcare sector react very quickly to the changes taking place, trying to be adaptive and to reduce all kinds of risks, both for doctors and for patients. According to that, employers influence changes in the labor market: they declare new requirements for doctors and offer special working conditions.