A total of 246 specialized health training places in family and community medicine have remained vacant after the extraordinary award that concluded today. As in the previous two years, it is the only specialty that has not managed to complete the mir offer, which totaled 2,493 positions. Last year, 131 places were deserted.
The ordinary allocation procedure concluded last Friday with 473 free positions, the majority in family medicine (459) and the rest in preventive medicine (12) and public health (2). These last two branches have managed to be completed in the extraordinary period, but the first leaves empty places in ten autonomous communities: Andalusia (39), Aragón (17), Castilla y León (47), Catalunya (22), Extremadura (49) , Galicia (42), Balears (10), La Rioja (9), Navarra (7) and Asturias (4).
The repechage has been especially productive for Catalonia, which was the autonomy with the most vacancies in the first instance (98) and has managed to fill 76. The biggest hole appears, as last year, in the teaching unit of Sant Fruitós de Bages, in the Central Catalunya health region (12). The rest of the gaps affect teaching units in Sabadell (2), Terrassa (2), Palamós (2), Lleida (2) and Tortosa (2).
After the extraordinary call, Extremadura takes over from Catalonia as the community with the most voids (49), which are located in Badajoz (12), Cáceres (5), Coria (4), Don Benito (11), Llerena (5), Navalmoral de la Mata (5) and Plasencia (7).
The training units with the most empty positions are found in the cities of Lugo (16) and Jaén (15). On the other hand, the large capitals, or the metropolitan area of Barcelona, managed to finish in the first call. Rurality is consolidated as an important factor in the rejection of future doctors.
In this sense, three rural teaching units have not managed to attract any residents: Coria (Extremadura) offered 4 vacancies; Barbastro (Aragón), 6 and Miranda de Ebro (Castilla y León), 11. In others the acceptance has been minimal, such as in Alcañiz (Teruel), with only one place assigned out of the 8 offered.
The challenge for the public health system now is to retain family doctors in training, since it is the specialty with the greatest deficit. 9% of mir drop out of training and between 50% and 90%, depending on the autonomies, leave the specialty when they finish their residency.
