- In addition to its agreements with 24 collaborating universities, the healthcare group has a Nursing and Vocational Training school in Cepovisa (Vigo)
- In the 2025-26 academic year, it is training a total of 191 residents (176 MIR and 15 EIR)
- Currently, 37 international medical students are completing clinical placements at Ribera hospitals.
The health group Ribera It consolidates its strategic commitment to the training of healthcare professionals with a comprehensive model that encompasses everything from Vocational Training to MIR and EIR specialization. With just over a week until the start of the new academic year, the group's training ecosystem currently has 1.778 students, positioning itself as one of the most important in the healthcare sector in Spain.
This training model includes 191 residents in training (176 resident physicians MIR and 15 resident nurses EIR), along with 767 undergraduate and postgraduate university students and 720 health vocational training students at the group's school, CepovisaIn addition to agreements with more than 24 national and international universities. Furthermore, the current occupancy in medical and nursing internships is distributed as follows: 129 students in the Torrejón University Hospital, 379 in the Vinalopó University Hospital (Elche) and 134 in the hospital Ribera Povisa (Vigo), a total of 642 students in these two degrees.
Specialized healthcare training, an indicator of hospital quality
Resident training is a key pillar of the healthcare system and a recognized indicator of quality care. In this regard, Ribera has active training programs in three of its hospitals: the Vinalopó University Hospital, the Torrejón University Hospital, and the Ribera Povisa Hospital.
In total, these centers have 191 residents: 87 in Vinalopó (77 medical residents and 10 nursing residents), 68 in Torrejón (63 medical residents and 5 nursing residents), and 36 medical residents in Povisa. The teaching network also accredits 35 programs and 46 medical/nursing residency positions annually, solidifying Ribera's position as a key player in the training of future healthcare professionals. For the 2027 medical residency program, Vinalopó has already announced its new accreditation to train residents in Emergency Medicine.
The simultaneous presence of residents, university students, vocational training students and international students reinforces the teaching character of the group's health centers and their ability to support different stages of the health training pathway.
A model that covers the entire healthcare pathway
The group's training program covers the entire healthcare education pathway: vocational healthcare training at Cepovisa; undergraduate and postgraduate university education at Cepovisa and through agreements with universities; clinical placements in hospitals; and specialized medical residency (MIR and EIR). In addition, continuing education is provided at the hospitals for professionals at all centers.
Thanks to this approach, the group's hospitals are not only healthcare centers but also leading teaching hospitals, with national and international students in training. Currently, 37 international medical students are completing clinical placements at Ribera hospitals, in collaboration with European universities.
The teaching capacity of the Ribera group also extends to Ribera LabThe corporate division for clinical diagnostics, pathology, and laboratory medicine, through ten of its centers located in the Valencian Community, the Community of Madrid, the Region of Murcia, and Galicia, offers nearly 100 annual training places for Nursing and Vocational Training students in the fields of Clinical and Biomedical Laboratory, Pathology and Cytodiagnosis, Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, and Dosimetry and Administration. This educational activity fosters practical learning in highly specialized environments equipped with cutting-edge diagnostic technology, contributing to the training of future healthcare professionals and reinforcing the Ribera Group's commitment to educational excellence.
Homogeneous academic management and consolidated teaching network
The academic analysis carried out in the hospitals of Torrejón, Vinalopó and Povisa has made it possible to organize the teaching activity with a group vision, reinforcing a corporate methodology based on common processes, homogeneous criteria, a real map of teaching capacity and a repository of documentation of students, residents and professionals.
This coordination facilitates the traceability of academic activity, improves the management of agreements and contributes to making Ribera's training ecosystem more solid, scalable and recognizable for universities, collaborating institutions and healthcare professionals.
Other private hospitals in the group, such as Ribera Virgen de la Caridad (Cartagena) or Ribera Hospital de Molina (Molina de Segura), also have students from different stages of training doing internships.
National and international academic network
Ribera maintains agreements with more than 24 academic institutions, including public and private universities in Spain, as well as international centers in Germany, Portugal, and Romania. Among the collaborating entities are, for example, the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, the University of Alcalá, the University Alfonso X the Wise, UCAM, La Salle and UMCH in the Torrejón area; CEU Cardinal HerreraUCAM, the University of Alicante and UMCH in Vinalopó; and the University of Santiago de CompostelaCepovisa, School of Health, Lisbon SchoolLower Danube, George Emil Palade and the University of Braga within the Povisa area. This network allows for the consolidation of a global training environment that promotes mobility, knowledge exchange and the attraction of healthcare talent.
