More than 30,000 people are examined this Saturday in Spain to qualify for a MIR place and other health specialties

2024-01-20 18:13:24

Updated Saturday, 20 January 2024 – 17:13

This Saturday, tests are held throughout the country to access one of the 11,607 Specialized Health Training places. A total of 30,066 applicants are invited to take a test format exam, to be answered in four and a half hours, which will begin and end at the same time in 28 locations, at least one per autonomous community.

Is about the largest offer of places approved by the Ministry of Health, 5% more than last year (436 more), although the bulk of these positions go to Medicine with 8,772 positions and 13,990 applicants, and Nursing (2,108 positions) and 9,010 candidates. These are followed, at a distance, by the places called for Pharmacy, Psychology, Chemistry, Biology and Physics.

In this call, the Ministry of Health wants to reinforce the precarious situation of Primary Care with an offer of 2,492 places in Family and Community Medicine, only 37 more than last year, but in an uninterrupted upward line since 2020, when 2,224 were called. With this increase, Health tries to alleviate a of the least attractive specialties among candidates and which, year after year, presents vacancies and has the highest dropout rates.

In 2023, 131 positions remained unfilled, and 93, a year before. The 8,772 Medicine places They represent an increase of 3% compared to last year, and of them 614 are reserved for people with disabilities. Meanwhile, Nursing offers 7% more places than in the previous call, and of them 148 are reserved for disabilities.

The specialty of Family and Community Nursing with 891 places is the one with the greatest offer, and is reinforced compared to past calls. In order from highest to lowest offer, Pharmacy has 340 places and 1,559 candidates in this call, ahead of Psychology (247 places and 3,850 applicants), Biology (65 places and 1,071 applicants), Physics (48 places and 305 candidates) and Chemistry (27 places for 279 candidates).

By sexesIn Medicine there is a majority of aspiring women 63.8% compared to 36.1% of men. This trend is even more deeply rooted in Pharmacy, where 88.1% of applicants are women and only 11.8% are men, and is maintained in all degrees except Physics, where men outnumber women, and They represent 57%.

In the total Specialized Sanitary Formacin (FSE) The female presence is evident with 74.2% while the male candidates account for 25.7%. The entrance tests will consist of 200 questions plus 10 reserve. Applicants will join the classrooms at 3:00 p.m., one less in the Canary Islands, and the exam will begin throughout the country at four in the afternoon and will last four and a half hours.

The tests will be carried out in 28 locations and in 622 exam tables, two of them located in the Ministry of Health. For the proper development of the tests, more than 2,000 people will collaborate as center delegates, auditors and board members or as members of the seven qualifying commissions. According to Health, the estimate is that the start of the places allocation events will begin in April and the incorporation into the place awarded to each applicant will take place at the end of May.

The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has called for “an effort among all the autonomous communities, hand in hand with the Ministry, to make primary care an attractive profession” and thus “retain the talent that is examined today and trained tomorrow.” .

This is how García has referred to the specialty of Family Medicine in the minutes before the start of the tests to access one of the 11,607 Specialized Health Training places, which include the MIR (Resident Internal Medicine) exam. In this call the Ministry of Health wants to reinforce the precarious situation of Primary Care with an offer of 2,492 places in Family and Community Medicine, only 37 more than last year, but in an uninterrupted upward line since 2020, when 2,224 were called.

“What we are seeing are losses of vocations that I think, as a country, we cannot afford,” said the minister, recalling that, in 2023, 131 positions were left unfilled, and 93 a year before. With this increase, Health tries to alleviate one of the least attractive specialties among candidates and which, year after year, presents vacancies and has the highest dropout rates.

“Those of us who have been there tell you that It is a day in which many nerves are spent, but then satisfactions come“, encouraged the minister when welcoming the doctors to the health system, which she referred to as “one of the fundamental pillars of our society.”