Ana Toledo gets the sixth best grade in the EIR, while Clara de Arriba is in 13th place in the resident intern doctor test; Marina Fernández leads the BIR
Since she began to seriously consider what she wanted to do with her life in high school, Ana María Toledo Belmonte was clear that she would be a midwife. She did not hesitate when choosing Nursing at the University of Murcia, and when the internships at La Arrixaca arrived, her vocation was reaffirmed more than ever. “I realized that this job means being by a woman’s side in one of the most important moments of her life, accompanying her and her baby, no matter what happens.” She will now return to La Arrixaca as a resident internal nurse (EIR), and she will do so after obtaining the sixth best grade in the exam, among the 7,900 applicants who applied.
“I didn’t expect it because it was difficult, but in the end I was lucky,” says Ana María modestly. But this brilliant result does not come out of nowhere, but comes after an end-of-degree award, the result of a record full of excellent grades. Number six of the EIR is from Casillas and comes from public education. Her mother is a kitchen assistant in the Murcian Health Service and her father is now unemployed.
Martín Solano, from Psychology, has obtained the second best qualification in the PIR
Having passed the acid test of the exam, Ana María is looking forward to enjoying a well-deserved rest, going to the beach and going out with her friends. Clara de Arriba has also earned a few months of vacation after being ranked number 13 in the MIR’s ‘ranking’ of best grades. A total of 8,188 applicants from all over Spain took part in the tests, and six UMU students are among the top 100 grades. Of all of them, Clara has obtained the most brilliant result, after the College of Physicians awarded her thesis for her final degree.
In the midst of a pandemic
The MIR was held at the end of January, at the worst moment of the sixth wave, with Covid threatening the future of the applicants. A positive meant not being able to take the test and therefore losing a year. “We have been quite worried, especially families, with a lot of stress. During rest periods you had to be very careful not to get infected, and that added pressure, ”Clara confesses. The number 13 of the MIR has medicine in her blood: her parents are hematologists, although she will ask for a place in another specialty “to change”, she jokes. She is attracted to Radiology, although she does not rule out Oncology, Neurology or Digestive. She still has time to think about it, and her position in the ‘ranking’ gives her the peace of mind of being able to choose what she prefers.
He also still doubts what to choose Marina Fernández, number 1 in the BIR. The places for biologists offered by the National Health System are very scarce, barely 46. 1,107 people applied for them. “It’s very complicated; last year 50 places left and I kept 53. I repeated and this time it has gone well. Now I am between Immunology and Clinical Analysis », she says. After graduating from the UMU with an end of degree award, she did a master’s degree in the United Kingdom. But work is scarce. “Experience is required for everything,” laments Marina. So she decided on the BIR and, in view of the result, she was right.
But the streak of the UMU does not end there. Martín Solano, from La Unión, has obtained the second best rating in the PIR (resident internal psychologists). One more year, the University of Murcia sweeps the specialized health training tests.