The Specialty Of Cardiology
The specialty of cardiology has been the most in demand for graduates in medicine after examining MIR, 2008
The specialty of cardiology has been the most in demand for medical graduates having passed last January, the screening of Internal residents (SIR), as 20 of the 100 students with better grade, one in five chose that specialty to fulfill their period of residence.
During the past two weeks, the students that the January 19 test performed selectively attended to the Ministry of Health in accordance with their qualifications to apply for the 6517 specialist health training places this year offered to build the residence system.
Although the number of candidates admitted to carrying out this test was 10,620 doctors, sources cautioned that Health will have to wait until the end of the awards to prove that all the seats are filled, since in recent years are always a few places remaining free.
Thus, although the first student to choose specialty-Elena Hernandez Martinez Pool, University of Navarra-opted for training in the Neurology Unit of Hospital de Navarra, Cardiology became the most requested specialty having identified a total of 20 future SIR, including the fifth, eighth and ninth best position after the test.
Far behind with 9 queries each of the top 100 places allocated, there are Internal Medicine and Medical-Surgical Dermatology and Venereologica, followed by pediatrics (8 places awarded), Aesthetic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (7), and Orthopedic Surgery Trauma (6), and Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (with 4 each).
With respect to the hospital where new residents will spend their training period, Madrid and Barcelona are the cities most sought after in the first elections, considering that both have various hospitals.
Thus, of the 100 first elections to the University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) and the Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona have been requested by 9 students each. Other hospitals in the capital have begun to quickly complete their places on offer have been the Gregorio Maranon (with 7 applications), Ramon y Cajal (6), Doce de Octubre (4) and the Clinico San Carlos (3), while Barcelona Clínic (with 8 applications) and Sant Joan de Deu (3), are also among the most requested sites.
Besides these, Zaragoza has received six applications thanks to Miguel Servet University Hospital and Clinic Universitario Lozano Blesa (3 each), while the Hospital Universitario de la Fe de Valencia (6) and the Reina Sofia in Cordoba (4) also have been among the most selected from the first 100 students to choose square.
The dominance of hospitals in Madrid among the first applications for new residents corresponds to the number of students from various medical schools in the capital. Thus, the region and the Complutense University, both in Madrid, are those that have managed to bring more students into the ‘top hundred’, with 10 each.
Then followed the Universities of Granada and Valencia, which provide 8 students each, Navarra and the Autonomous of Barcelona, and 7, the Central University of Barcelona, with 6, those of Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza and Oviedo, with 5 .
Moreover, among the first 100 students to select their place also draws attention to the presence of five students from foreign universities speaking, therefore, did not have to do any language test prior to examination SIR.