More than 30,000 applicants will fight today to get the 11,607 specialized health training places (FSE), the largest offer approved by the Ministry of Health, in a context of a lack of professionals in certain specialties, especially medicine and family and community nursing , two chapters that bring together almost a third of the places in competition.
From four in the afternoon, in 28 cities throughout Spain, those who will be the specialists of the decade of 2030 will begin to answer, for four and a half hours, the 200 questions (plus 10 reserved) of which your future and the future of the healthcare system depend on it. Each question consists of four possible answers, one of which is valid. Each correct answer will receive an assessment of three points, one point will be deducted for each incorrect answer and unanswered questions will be left unassessed.
The healthcare system is being feminized by leaps and bounds. 74.22% of the 30,066 admitted to the tests are women. The female sex prevails among applicants for training places in nursing, with 88.19%, but also in medicine, with two out of three opponents. In fact, among the seven areas of the FSE, only physics has a male majority (57%) among those admitted.
The call offers 11,607 places, 5% more (436) than last year. Medicine takes the lion's share of the cake (8,772 places) and is the one with the best chance of success, with 13,990 invited. Behind, the nursing degree seeks 2,108 professionals among 9,010 applicants; pharmacy, 340 places for 1,559 graduates; psychology, 247, for 3,850; biology, 65 for 1,071; physics, 48 for 305, and chemistry offers 27 training places for 279 candidates. A quota of 812 places is reserved for people with disabilities and another 551 for non-EU citizens.
The procedure is clearly aimed at strengthening primary care, the level of access to public health and the most deficient in terms of professionals. So, 2,492 family and community medicine places and 891 family and community nursing places are offered.
The two previous calls were vacant for the positions of internal resident doctor (MIR) in family medicine. In other words, doctors who passed the exam chose to wait for the next FSE exams or look for other professional alternatives before going to an outpatient clinic. The extraordinary workload, increased by the bureaucratic tasks, and the lack of professional recognition make newly graduated doctors illegal.
On the other hand, dermatology was the favorite MIR specialty. Last year, places were sold out within two days of the election period and aspirant number 718 was the last to be eligible. This edition offers 123 places. Another of the most coveted specialties in previous years is that of plastic, aesthetic and restorative surgery, for which 55 vacancies are now offered.
The test will be held in 28 capitals of all the autonomous communities. Madrid (5,789), Barcelona (2,924) and Valencia (2,503) are the ones with the most applicants called up. In Logronyo (207) or Cáceres (285) the exam will be held almost as a family. More than 2,000 people will oversee the development of the call in the roles of center delegates, auditors and members of the examination committees or as members of the seven qualifying commissions.
The provisional results will be published at the end of February, one month after the tests, and at the end of March the official marks will be announced. Place allocation events will take place at the end of April.
