Noelia García, a 24-year-old medical student and native of the Madrid town of San Sebastián de los Reyes, has become number 1 on the provisional lists of the MIR 2024 exam, having 190 correct answers in her test and only 10 failures.
She is an only child and has no close relatives who work in healthcare. When the time came to choose which career to study, "I opted for medicine because I saw myself in the long term practicing healthcare and full of satisfaction." "My parents did not pressure me - she emphasizes - to choose a career, although I also considered biochemistry and economics."
His future is clear: "I want to specialize in dermatology or endocrinology because being a family doctor offers little quality of life, even though I consider it to be one of the most beautiful jobs, having a quota of patients, being able to follow up on them... ", he assures in a telephone interview with La Vanguardia.
The young doctor considers that primary care in Madrid "is quite deteriorated, with very long waiting lists...". To which she adds: "I'm very interested, but it doesn't offer quality of life." So she will opt for one of those two specialties, in whose units she has already done internships at the Madrid hospital in La Paz. "I'm not going to go do my specialty outside of Madrid because going to another city would mean paying rent and here I will continue living at my parents' house, so the difference in salary wouldn't be that big," he says, despite the fact that You know that in other Autonomous Communities the MIRs are better paid.
Even the former Minister of Health, Ana Pastor, has congratulated her on social networks, like X, for her high score. Since she is the first on the list, she will have preference to choose a specialty, so she will not have problems selecting a center and branch. This is the best MIR grade in at least the last fifteen years, according to data collected by the Asturias Academy, an academic center that has trained the best MIRs in recent editions.
Thanks to his effort, tenacity, perseverance and discipline he has achieved this milestone. When she came out of the exam she was very happy. On January 21, thanks to the tools offered by the academic center where she has trained for the MIR, Academia Asturias, she inserted her response template into the corrector and from that moment she knew that she only had 10 errors. .
The young woman says that she did not frequently go to classes at the medical school at the Autonomous University, but rather prepared the exams on her own "with the professors' slides and notes from classmates or from previous years." During the first quarter of her degree, she says, "I went, but then I saw that the classes took up too much time from my private life."
He began his internship in the third year of his studies at the Princesa Hospital, "but Covid arrived and they sent us home." Later, during the last three years of her studies, she asked to do an internship in La Paz "because it was a center that was closer to home." And there, García has done internships in many units, from neurology to gynecology, through ophthalmology, emergencies, anesthesia or rehabilitation. "In the sixth grade I spent more time in dermatology and endocrinology because I realized that they were two of the specialties that I liked the most."
To take the MIR test and not have problems when choosing the specialty, he did go to the aforementioned academy to train and "acquire practice in that type of multiple choice exam." "I spent 17 months at the academy and studied more than 11 hours a day," she says.
Wanting to stay in Madrid, he wants to obtain a place "in the La Paz hospital itself, in the Ramón y Cajal or in the Infanta Sofía."
In her opinion, the key to getting a high grade in this type of tests is to take care of "both your physical and mental health," explains the young doctor and number one in her 2017-2023 university class at the MIR.
