Closes with 131 Family Medicine vacancies

The 2023 MIR election ends with a bitter result for family and community medicine: Out of 202 vacancies, 131 were left open after the first call. although there was 2,445 voters are available In this second round, only 80 people showed interest in any of the available vacancies, and in the end, Only 71 places were awarded, just over 35% of those available.

131 empty spaces divided between Aragon (fifteen), Asturias (1), Cantabria (4), Castile and Leon (40), Cataloniato (8), Extremadura (16), Galicia (33) and Navara (14). La Rioja only managed to cover the two spots R1 ran out of at this extraordinary turn. In all, 5.3% of the 2,455 available spots remained free.

Family, worse than last year

The 2022 MIR Award has ended with four majors not covered (Occupational medicineAnd preventive medicine and public health,Microbiology and Parasitology and family and community medicine) during the normal appeal, which was expected to be the only one.

In the case of family medicine, the 2022 MIR election closed with 93 vacancies, 83 fewer than this year. Microbiology was left with 2, Preventive Medicine with 8 and Occupational Medicine also with 8 revealed in the first round, but later they were elected by non-EU citizens who were able to participate in the second call which was impromptu weeks after the elections closed .

This was the second round of MIR 2023

The last voter who chose the family is the number 10769which will be formed in the health district of Don Benito Villanueva de la Serena.

there 24 advanced At the meeting that belongs to the disability share, 2 of them handle your application. There are 453 applicants called who belong to a non-EU quota, 41 of them are processing a place request. The applicant’s appeal with Order No. 7093, which opts for Order No. 6746, was heard. This person has processed an application for office at this hearing.

In total, 8,347 places were awarded, up 4.7% from last year, with 7,970 seats. The efforts of the Ministry of Health in places are increasingHe also referred to this method without commenting at the present time on the status of family medicine.

Feedback from professionals

Member of the Young Doctors of OMC, Sunday SanchezHe believes that “we are facing a critical situation in the model of specialized health training and access to it.” For this reason, he wonders, “What plans does the ministry have to mitigate or work on it?”

He confirms that they sent more than ten proposals from the Council and that they “Open to work And we are trying to see how we can help because we are in a critical situation and it could jeopardize the availability of future specialists for the health system.”

“We have shown here, not only that we know the reality and have worked on it by sending these proposals, but also that we are again fully available because we are very concerned about what might happen in the future.”

Sheila Justow, MIR member of CESM, explains that, in practice, Thanks for the “re” candidates (since the remainder is part of the European Union’s non-member and disability quotas), 28 places covered, because otherwise “there would be 159 empty places.” “They are non-refundable MIR places What they reflect is system failure.”

“The fact that the assignment is not in real time makes selection difficult, particularly in family medicineBecause you can’t know what order you’re in when you choose the unit.” And it’s not the same as being first than being last, as you can’t choose which health center or which you want to rotate.

“If they don’t implement urgent measures to provide primary care physicians in health policies at the central and regional levels, the system will not be sustainable. It’s that simple,” he adds.

He also laments that they have information from communities that employ non-specialist doctors, which could cause voters to ignore it, which is why he calls for oversight measures. “Societies must not reduce the training requirements for professionals, thereby violating the integrity and quality of the system“.

He just asks, moreover, that Implementation of actions agreed upon in different communities to improve conditions The practice of primary care physicians, such as restricting schedules, is among other reasons for improving the quality of care.