Medical representatives continue to reduce the number of Japanese Mr certification reached a record low!

Recently, Japan's Mr Certification Center began this year's medical representative certification test According to Japanese media reports, the number of Mr taking the certification test this year has reached the lowest ever! This year, the number of people applying for certification examination is 2174, because there are still absentees on that day, and the actual number of people in the examination is still in the statistics However, the number of 2174 has reached the lowest level since the first certification examination in 1997 Last year, the number of applicants for Mr certification examination was 2576, and the actual number of participants was 2539, which was the lowest in history However, this year, the number of applicants decreased by 402 again compared with last year Of the medical representatives applying for the exam this year, 1660 took the exam for the first time and 514 took the exam again According to the data in recent years, it has declined significantly since 2013, and the number of examinees has decreased by about one third during the six years The actual number of participants and passing rate are expected to be announced in late January 2020 According to the Japanese Mr Certification Center, the reason for the decrease in the number of applicants is the decrease in the number of new graduates In May this year, the Japanese Pharmaceutical Information Express magazine once made a questionnaire on the medical representatives of the graduates The survey results show that among 58 Japanese pharmaceutical enterprises, 880 graduates entered the company in April this year In the same period, in 2018, 52 pharmaceutical companies were counted, with 1028 new graduates joining the company This year, the number of these 52 companies is 797, a decrease of 231 According to the survey and feedback from enterprises, 29 pharmaceutical companies said that they had reduced the employment of new graduates this year It should be understood that the reason for the decrease in the number of Japanese pharmaceutical representatives is mainly due to the reform of the drug price system in Japan Pharmaceutical companies began to reduce the number of mature drug promotion teams, implement early retirement plans for employees or transfer to innovative drug promotion ▌ Japanese medical representative certification test Recently, the Japanese medical representative certification test is the 26th test since the implementation of Mr certification test in Japan As before, the basic knowledge of medical representative practitioners should be assessed in the form of judgment questions and multiple choice questions The test is divided into three sections: drug knowledge (80 minutes and 80 questions), disease and treatment (110 minutes and 110 questions), and comprehensive knowledge of Medical Representative (80 questions) 80 minutes) Dami has introduced to you before Compared with our country, the education and training of Japanese pharmaceutical representatives started earlier In 1979, the Japan Pharmaceutical Industry Association started to create a training program for pharmaceutical representatives, and then formed a systematic education and training system in 1980.