The Government has increased the MIR places by 5% compared to last year and by 38% since Sánchez arrived to try to solve the lack of doctors in some specialties
“These are days of good news for the health system and for the health workers”, stressed the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, after announcing that in the next call the Government will convene 11,112 places to access Specialized Health Training, which represents the largest number of MIR places offered in history. Before him doctor deficit that Spain suffers in some specialties such as Primary Care, Psychiatry or Anesthesiology, which has become especially evident with the pandemic, the Executive has been increasing the offer every year, so that they have created 3,000 more seats since Pedro Sánchez arrived at La Moncloawhich represents an increase of 38% and 486 more compared to last year, 5% more, according to the minister.
Of the latter, 323 will correspond to Medicine and 73 to Primary Care, after the last call left vacancies 200 places of this last specialty that many recent graduates do not want to study due to the care pressure problems suffered by health centers, among other reasons. The Government had to expand the quota of non-community doctors to cover the vacancies.
The Minister of Health has recognized that one of the problems, which have been dealt with this Wednesday in a Interterritorial Health Council dedicated monographically to the human resources of the system, is that the communities cannot grant teaching accreditations for all positions, which is why Darias has asked the autonomies “an additional effort” so that accredit more teaching units, especially in the specialties where there is more deficit.
the royal decree
Likewise, it has been agreed to make the access criteria to the MIR squares, “so that the greatest number of people can enter”, and the “Admission rights” imposed by some private hospitals. Both measures are part of the Royal Decree that introduces changes in the specialties and that was approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers. The new standard introduces a set of subjects that health professionals must take across the board and regulates the procedure for creating new specialist titlesamong other subjects.
The decree will allow the creation of new specialties at the initiative of scientific societies, for which the Society of Medicine of emergencies and Emergencies has welcomed the regulatory change and has announced that, imminently, it will request that the specialty of emergencies, something that has been demanded for decades and that several ministers have promised but that has never become a reality. Professionals from various branches work in the emergency rooms of Spanish hospitals, but without specialized training in emergencies, beyond extra-university training courses. The same happens with the infectious diseases. The medical society that brings together professionals who have been so important during the pandemic will demand that the specialty be created.
The opinions of the sector
The State Confederation of Trade Unions (CESM) has positively valued the approval of the decree due to the “technical improvements” introduced, especially in the evaluation of professionals and the confirmation of the requirement of qualification as a specialist to be able to practice, although it has indicated that “the expectation generated is not in line with the news it introduces”. On the contrary, the General Nursing Council has rejected the regulation because “ignore the lacks and needs of specialization of the nurses“.
The decree published this Wednesday in the BOE completes the one approved two weeks ago by the Council of Ministers and which implies that They will convert more than 67,000 toilets into permanent ones that currently chain one contract after another. “It will mean a radical change to put an end to temporality”, Darias highlighted.
persistent covid
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On the other hand, the Interterritorial Council has approved the persistent covid definition that has been proposed by the Carlos III Health Institute and that encompasses the set of multi-organ failures not attributable to other causes and that last beyond the infection. The study, which is not yet finished, refers to the most frequent symptoms of persistent covid, such as memory loss, confusion, muscle pain or fatigue.
Likewise, the minister has reiterated that “everything indicates” that the fourth dose against covid Those over 80 years of age will begin to be inoculated “from the second week of September”, when the arrival of the vaccines adapted to the new variants is expected.