The Murcian Health Service (SMS) finally manages to fill all the positions of internal resident doctor (MIR) offered this year in the Region of Murcia, after this Wednesday the only position that remained vacant was assigned: a position in Family Medicine and Community in the Altiplano. However, throughout Spain there are 246 unallocated positions in this specialty of the 459 that the Ministry was trying to fill this Wednesday through an extraordinary call. Last week, the adjudication process was closed with almost two out of every ten Family Medicine places deserted.
The balance demonstrates the difficulties of the National Health System in finding professionals willing to work in Primary Care. The Ministry and the communities have been increasing the number of MIR positions in Family and Community Medicine for several years, but a growing number of these positions remain unfilled. «This is the chronicle of a death foretold; “It is shown that the changes in Primary are being ineffective and unattractive,” said Domingo Sánchez from Murcia, member of young doctors in the Collegiate Medical Organization (OMC), last week.
The Minister of Health, Juan José Pedreño, insisted this week on the need for the Ministry to “make the criteria more flexible” so that the MIR offer can be increased in the face of the shortage of doctors throughout Spain. But the results of this call show that the problem goes further, and that an increase in places without making them more attractive will not cover the needs, as Primary medical societies have been warning for some time.
An example of this is the difficulties that the SMS is encountering in filling the 111 new positions for associate doctors in Family Medicine created last year within the framework of the Primary Care Improvement Strategy. 74 of these positions were still unfilled at the beginning of this year, when the Ministry offered the latest balance.
Pedreño considers it “essential” that more places be offered
The Minister of Health, Juan José Pedreño, stated this Wednesday “that once again all the places offered have been filled, even though the offer has increased by more than six percent, which shows that the Region of Murcia is one of the most autonomous regions. attractive for doctors who have finished their degree and are beginning their specialty stage.
Pedreño assured that “the efforts of the Government of the Region of Murcia will be in vain if the Ministry of Health does not address, once and for all, the deficit of doctors and does not put on the table solutions that help alleviate this lack that “It will get worse as the years go by.” “It is essential that more places be offered in medical schools, and that the current accreditation criteria that govern the offer of MIR places be made more flexible,” he said.
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