- Among the novelties, the new training offer at the Vinalopó University Hospital in the Radiology Service stands out, the two new places at the Torrejón University Hospital in Neurology and Otorhinolaryngology and the rotations that the Resident Internal Nursing (EIR) staff will do in Ribera Povisa
- Torrejón and Vinalopó organize their open day on March 19 and 22 respectively
The hospitals of the health group Ribera This year, 2024, they offer a total of 64 positions for Resident Intern Doctor (MIR) and 10 for Resident Intern Nurse (EIR), in three of their hospitals, accredited for this type of training. Specifically, the Vinalopó University Hospital makes 20 places available to doctors who are going to choose a specialty, the same as the hospital Ribera Povisa. There are 24 vacancies offered this year by the Torrejón University Hospital. For Nursing, Vinalopó offers five positions, the same as Torrejón. The open day at these two hospitals takes place on March 22 and 19 respectively.
The Ribera group's training offer for doctors who are going to specialize in an area of Medicine covers 16 specialties. In Vinalopó 13 are offered, and the largest, with a total of eight places, is for Family and Community Medicine. But there is also a place for a resident in each of these areas: General Surgery and the Digestive System, Rehabilitation, Intensive Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Pathological Anatomy, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Orthopedic and Traumatological Surgery, Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Cardiology and Radiology, new this year.
At the Torrejón hospital, many of these specialties are repeated and some others stand out, one of the most in demand by new doctors, such as Dermatology. A place is offered in each of the following specialties: Anesthesiology, General Surgery, Traumatology, Dermatology, Intensive Care Medicine, Ophthalmology and new ones in the Neurology and Otorhinolaryngology services. And two places for new residents will have the services of Internal Medicine, Radiodiagnosis, Gynecology and Pediatrics. The specialty with the greatest number of places, as in Vinalopó, is Family and Community Medicine, with eight vacancies for first-year residents.
Regarding the Ribera Povisa hospital, the 20 accredited places are distributed into 12 for new Family doctors, one for each of the Anesthesiology and General Surgery and Digestive System services, and two respectively for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Medicine Internal and Radiodiagnosis.
Training for Resident Intern Nurses (EIR)
A little less is the training offer for Resident Intern Nurses (EIR), which totals a total of 10 places in the two university hospitals of the Ribera group, five in Vinalopó and the same number in Torrejón. Both will train two residents in the Family specialty, two others as midwives, and one in Pediatrics. Regarding the Ribera Povisa hospital, it does not have accredited EIR training but it does have incorporates EIR personnel into training rotations in the specialty of Family and Community Medicine in its second year (R2). Between 2024 and 2025, a total of 14 resident internal nurses will join the training at Ribera Povisa who will delve into the functions of the case manager for complex chronic patients with total immersion in the unit's programs and protocols, applying the criteria to classify this type of patient and knowing the resources available for care.
Advantages of MIR and EIR training in Ribera group hospitals
Those responsible for Teaching and training in the hospitals of the Ribera group highlight, for example, that although the teaching committees are independent collegiate bodies with autonomy in each hospital of the group, “having a network of accredited health centers for training offers "gives the resident greater tools to participate in lines of research, as well as in core training areas, always framed and respecting the different training itineraries that emanate from the national commissions of each specialty." Furthermore, regarding future employability, three Ribera hospitals have MIR teaching, but the group currently has twelve hospitals and 58 polyclinics, 1.775 beds and 8.400 professionals.
Another of the differential values of Ribera hospitals for future MIR and EIR, in the opinion of those responsible for Teaching, is personalized training. “We facilitate and enhance their participation, from the beginning, in events and teaching activities, as well as in clinical practice,” they say. In the case of the Vinalopó University Hospital, for example, they assure that its difference with respect to the rest of the departments is in “placing the resident at the center of the training actions, through periodic meetings to obtain feedback of their training, which allows identifying areas of continuous improvement and consolidating the implemented training actions.”
** Photos of the welcome events for the MIR and EIR of 2023 at the university hospitals of Vinalopó and Torrejón.
