“The Canary Islands Joins Other Communities in Urging National Measures to Address Family and Community Medicine Resident Positions”
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has joined several other communities in signing a manifesto urging the Ministry of Health to adopt measures at the national level to address the deficit in Family and Community Medicine Resident Internal Physician (MIR) positions, as well as on the accreditation criteria of these specialists.
The Canary Islands now joins the Basque Country, Andalusia, Catalonia, Castilla y León, Aragón, La Rioja, Murcia, Madrid, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, and Cantabria, who have already signed this manifesto in favor of improvements in the field of Primary Care.
The manifesto, promoted by the governments of Galicia and the Basque Country, demands urgent shock measures from the Ministry of Health due to the lack of doctors in Primary Care and proposes concrete actions to alleviate the deficit of MIR places in Family and Community Medicine.
There are six proposals for urgent measures of ministerial competence included in the document that could contribute to resolving the situation of lack of MIR in Primary Care. These measures include guaranteeing that the system for choosing MIR places does not leave vacant places, urgently expanding the number of specialized medical training places in Family and Community Medicine, and carrying out a call for extraordinary MIR positions in the specialty of Family and Community Medicine.
The document also emphasizes the importance of developing instruments that allow the National Health System to plan its training offer more rigorously in the future. Finally, within the framework of the Primary Care Action Plan 2022-2023 adopted by the Interterritorial Council of the SNS, they propose to promote and implement all measures that facilitate the competency development of the doctor specializing in Family and Community Medicine.
This movement by the Canary Islands and other communities serves as a call for national action to address the shortage of Family and Community Medicine Resident positions, with the hope of ultimately improving the healthcare system for professionals and patients across the country.