2024-02-15 13:00:00
The latest advances achieved by Pneumology both from a clinical and technological point of view, it is the main asset that the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (Separ) uses to be the first option in the selection process for MIR 2024 places. The society is convinced that Pulmonology will be the specialty chosen among many future residents, because “it is increasingly common for students to go to Pulmonology when performing the final degree projectwhen before specialists had to make this offer”.
The evolution that the specialty has undergone is for Martha Clementedirector of the Separ undergraduate committee, is essential to generate new incentives among future residents: “The advance in all the techniques of interventional pulmonology, bronchoscopy techniques, the advance of intermediate respiratory care units, the coronavirus… It positioned the specialty better.”
In recent years, the pulmonologist highlights that the role of the specialty in hospitals has grown, allowing that “few hospitals in Spain do not now have a intermediate intensive care unit. “The clinical importance goes hand in hand with an important technological advance.”
“The clinical importance of Pulmonology goes hand in hand with an important technological advance”
One of the needs that Pulmonology has to address, in the specialist’s words, “is the shortage of pulmonologists. There are many hospitals that have limited staff and cannot meet all the needs of patients. In the job boards In many territories there are no pulmonologists and we are working with reduced staff. MIR applicants have in Pulmonology a specialty with good job prospects.”
Pulmonology allows “own diagnostic techniques” to be performed
Another point that the pulmonologist highlights to praise the specialty is that the future residents will have the possibility to “perform for themselves own diagnostic techniques and endoscopic treatments. From the point of view of bronchoscopy, it is important to advance in diagnostic methods, placing endobranchial valves, using the navigator to access lung lesions that could not be accessed before.”
“Interventional, ventilation and lung function pulmonology can be done in hospitals of any level”
Clemente sees it as very difficult to make a prediction about whether the specialty of Pulmonology will receive a greater reception than in previous years, although it does affirm that “the job of pulmonologists is, at the undergraduate level, to be able to transmit the benefits of Pulmonology. In addition, the MIR must know that interventional pulmonology, ventilation and pulmonary function can be done in hospitals of any level.”
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