Total number of licensed professionals in the Philippines, excluding lawyers (from Antonio Contreras's FB account)

Our country has a total of 5,548,548 licensed professions, where 2,214,429 of them are professional teachers (39.9%) and registered nurses with 1,001,720 (18.1%) so if we sum up the total number of professional teachers and registered nurses combined, there are 3,216,149 or 58%.

If you wonder why can't we have all or at least 75% of total licensed professionals practice their licenses within our country is due to the government's inability to open more teaching and nursing positions in public schools and hospitals respectively with reasonable salaries and benefits to dissuade them from working abroad (may palakasan system sa hiring of government school teachers at nurses eh). Many of them who opt to stay in our country just shifted to other industries like working in the BPO industry.

We only have 174,311 physicians in our country, a far cry to at least 500,000 practicing physicians we need to cure Filipino citizens in need for medical attention. I think the government should consider the idea of converting Doctor of Medicine course into a five-year undergraduate degree where a SHS graduate who wants to become a medical doctor can directly attend medical school, with no need for taking pre-med courses and the same thing for aspiring lawyers.

What are your ideas how to fix the lack of sufficient number of licensed professionals in certain professions?