Ukraine’s Ministry of Health has launched medvacancy.moz.gov.ua — a centralised web portal publishing internship vacancies at state and municipal healthcare facilities across the country. At launch, 5,400 positions have been uploaded, spanning all major medical specialisations and regions.
What’s on the Portal
The listings cover a broad range of clinical specialisations. A breakdown by category:
- Internal Medicine — general therapy, cardiology, endocrinology, rheumatology
- General Practice / Family Medicine — primary care and outpatient positions
- Surgery — general surgery, trauma, vascular, urology
- Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care — ICU and perioperative roles
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology — maternity and women’s health facilities
- Paediatrics — children’s hospitals and outpatient clinics
- Psychiatry & Neurology — mental health and neurological services
- Emergency Medicine — front-line emergency and trauma care
Regional Snapshot
Among the most vacancy-dense oblasts represented on the portal:
The portal allows filtering by region, specialisation, and facility type. Applications are submitted directly through the platform.
Next Step
The Ministry is expected to integrate the portal with the eHealth system, enabling cross-verification of intern credentials and streamlining onboarding for newly qualified physicians.
Author’s Take
A real step toward transparency — and long overdue. I briefly checked the portal myself and looked up Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, a name that every intern in the country knows. For years, surgical positions there reportedly changed hands for up to $20,000 under the table.
Now those same vacancies are visible to anyone with an internet connection, and any graduate can at least submit their CV and hope it gets read.
The catch is the listed salary: 15,000 UAH per month for a surgeon or anaesthesiologist — roughly 25% below the Ukrainian average, and about ten times less than the equivalent role in Poland. That gap won’t close by posting jobs online.
As long as official pay sits at those levels, informal patient payments will continue to cover 85–90% of what a specialist actually earns. Transparency is step one. Pay reform is the step that matters.