Classroom for the MIR 2023 exam.
After long months of pressure, uncertainty and, above all, a titanic effort, the great day has arrived for the applicants for the MIR 2023 and rest of Specialized Health Training (ESF). A total of 12,668 physicians have been summoned this Saturday, January 21, to the test to fulfill the dream of obtaining one of the 8,550 places offered by the Ministry of Health for this historic call. Nerves, hugs and messages of encouragement, but also an extra dose of illusion, have followed one another at the gates of the Law School of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), one of the centers authorized to take the exam that could mark a before and after in the professional life of the candidates.
As in previous calls, Medical Writing has traveled to this point in the capital to see first-hand the minute by minute of this day that recovers normality after the pandemic by Covid-19. Without masks or safety distance, there have been no shortage of displays of affection or tears that have intensified moments before the start of the first turn of callwhen the opponents have said goodbye to their loved ones to access the interior of the Faculty.
“They have to be aware that they have been working for many months, so they deserve to enter the exam room and prove it. They have to fight question by question”, he explained to this newspaper Ferdinand of TheresaCTO academic director, who has not hesitated to travel to the university center to shelter the students.
As doctors know well, teaching teams recommend Do not open the manual on the morning of the call; a maxim that he has respected Leticiaone of the applicants for the MIR 2023 exam. “At 2:30 p.m. this Friday I closed the books and have not reopened them. In fact, I have post- its in my room and I haven’t even looked at them; I have fully complied, ”explains the young woman, who, just an hour after the start of the exercise, she assures that she does not feel“ nervous at all ”: “I have worked a lot and this is one more drill”.
Like many other doctors, Leticia has attended the important appointment accompanied by her parents, who show “absolutely proud” of the effort made not only in the MIR preparation, but throughout the entire Medicine degree.
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“Managing pressure is not something new for medical students” |
Jefferson has been summoned to carry out the test in one of the rooms of the Faculty of Geography and History of the UCM, where around 3,000 graduates have been summoned. In the corridors, waiting to be called to identify himself, he confesses to being “very nervous” and not having been able to comply with another of the main recommendations. “I couldn’t sleep well; I woke up at 5 in the morning. Of course, I have collected some of the tips that they have given me colleagues who have already appeared on other occasions, such as not reviewing at the last minute. It doesn’t make sense to be studying a day before; You just have to trust yourselflike when you take the final exams in Medicine. Managing pressure is not something new for us”, explains the young man.
The doctor, who lands in Spain from Bogotá, hopes to become part of the quota reserved for non-EU citizens y take possession of a MIR position. “The opportunity to get to know this country and that we can take a test like this is beautiful,” he adds, just before being called to enter the classroom definitively.
In front, four and a half uninterrupted hours of exam in which to try to capture the hard work done for months, and even years, but knowing that there will always be a new opportunity.
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