The Ministry of Health has announced 11,600 specialized health training places for the 2024 call, a "new historical record", which represents an increase of 4% compared to the previous year, almost 500 more places, as explained by the minister José Miñones after The celebration of the human resources commission held this morning and in which the autonomous communities participate. It is the ninth year of increase in places.
At a press conference, Miñones explained that of these 11,600 positions, a total of 8,767 correspond to Internal Resident Physicians (MIR). And of these, 2,489 will be for Primary Care, 34 more than this year. And that despite the fact that this year 131 have remained vacant. In 2022, there were 93 left over.
Miñones has pointed out that it is in family and community medicine where there is "the biggest problem". It is a specialty in which one in three professionals will be of retirement age by 2027 and where the autonomous communities lack replacement personnel. However, the minister has justified "that the fact that not all of them are covered does not mean that less is being covered, more is being covered."
Despite the success of Dermatology, it only adds 3 more places (120 to 123) and Cardiology will have 197 places. Anesthesiology, for its part, will go from 407 to 427 and Internal Medicine will reach 425 positions, 12 more than in 2023.
Another 2,616 places will be for Internal Resident Nurses (EIR), followed by the specialties of Pharmacy, Psychology, Biology, Physics and Chemistry, which are increasing in relation to previous years.
The access tests will be on January 20, 2024 so that the selection can be made in April.
