MIR Exam: Everything you need to know to be a Resident Internal Physician - Mirial (2023)

If you have ever wonderedhow does the mir work, here we show you all the details to prepare for theMIR 2024 exam call. With this little guide you will discover the most relevant ins and outs of the exam that accredits medical students to practice their discipline professionally.

What is the MIR exam and which is the responsible body

HeMIR examis the proofthat gives validity to exercise asResident Internal Physicianin Spain. It is required for doctors, Spanish or foreign, who wish to access a position of this type.The MIR exams are held annually between January and February, habitually.

The responsible body is the Ministry of Health, although as we know, the transfers in this matter are transferred to the autonomous communities. Once the MIR exam is approved, the title ofMedical Specialist, which is what allows medicine to be practiced in any of the areas of theNational system of health.

How the MIR exam works

HeMIR examis a call thatdoes not have a defined official agenda. Those registered can be subjected to questions of all kinds related to medicine. The test consists of answering200multiple choice questions with four options, but only one is valid.

The questionnaire is completed with 10 reserve questions in case there are misprints or formulation problems.The maximum duration allowed to complete the exam is 4 and a half hours.

All issues are documented in usual manuals in the Faculties of Medicine.The grade obtained in this exam represents 90% of the final grade, while the remaining 10% corresponds to the academic record.

HeMIR examIt has a very marked dynamic that has been repeated for years, but periodically some modifications are introduced. The number of questions to solve, for example, has been reduced from 225 to 175, and has risen to 200 as of theMIR exam 2022. The calculation of the final mark has also changed, since now the MIR represents 90% of the qualification, compared to 75% a few years ago. Depending on the note obtained, you can access some MIR specialties or others.

Preparing for the MIR exam is one of the most important challenges any medical student faces, but thanks to the help ofMirial, with hisgamification system to get started in this challenge, you can learn more details aboutthe MIR exam and lose your nerves.

How to pass the MIR exam

Last year, to pass the test, applicants had to obtain 25% of the average of the ten best exam marks (MIR 2023).

The people who did not reach that minimum appeared in the provisional results as 'eliminated'.

Key dates of the MIR exam

Normally, and approximately (each year is usually the same), the key dates of the MIR exam are the following:

👉Mid/end of January. It is the date on which the MIR exam is usually held each year.

• exam time: At 3:00 p.m. in peninsular time, one hour less in the Canary Islands, those summoned are called, and at 4:00 p.m. the test begins.

👉End of January. Five business days after the exam, Health publishes the answers considered correct by the Qualifying Commissions. Applicants dissatisfied with the results can claim for three more days.

👉End of February. Publication of the provisional results of the MIR exam.

👉End of March. Official results of the MIR exam.

👉End of April. Call for ordinary and extraordinary acts of awarding places.

Places offered for the MIR 2024

The Ministry of Health each year launches a call with a series of places. Last year,the call was for 11,171 placesof Specialized Health Training (FSE) for the 2022-2023 academic year, which are divided as follows:

👉8,550 will be for specialist doctors(MIR)
👉Nursing (1,961)
👉Pharmacy (308)
👉Psychology (231)
👉Biology (60)
👉Physics (42)
👉Chemistry (19)

For the year 2024, an increase in the number of places is expected.

Specialties in the MIR exam

In Spain there are a total of almost 50 MIR specialties that are divided intoclinical, surgical, medical-surgical and laboratory. In general, most of them are recognized in other countries, but some are typical of Spanish medicine.

surgical specialties

Surgical specialties are those practiced bysurgeons. they useinvasive methods to solve health problems. This includes all surgeries: cardiac, general and digestive system, oral and maxillofacial, orthopedic and traumatology, pediatrics, plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive, thoracic andneurosurgery.

Medical-surgical specialties

These are athalf way between surgery and pharmacological treatmentsSo they can use both ways. They include vascular surgery and angiology,dermatologymedical-surgical and venereology,obstetrics and gynecology, urology,ophthalmologyand otorhinolaryngology.

💡👉 If you have doubts about which specialty to choose, this videocan guide you:

Through a debate between Dr. Antonio Martín Conejero (Vascular Surgeon at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital) and Dr. Nacho Botella (Endocrinologist at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid), moderated by Dr. Roberto García Leal, you will be able to resolve possible doubts and reflect on both modalities of the medical career.

Laboratory or diagnostic specialties

Here are formedphysicians who support other physicians. They make diagnoses and suggest clinical treatments, but the relationship with the patient is more distant. Specialties of this type include radiodiagnosis, pharmacology, nuclear medicine, clinical analysis, clinical biochemistry orimmunology, among other.

clinical specialties

The latter are the ones that respond to themost popular doctor figure. They are those in which there is amore personalized care with the patientand they offerpreventive, diagnostic and therapeutic treatments.

The list is very long, but some well-known ones are cardiology, endocrinology, epidemiology, internal medicine, sports or rehabilitation medicine, oncology, pediatrics, and so on.

most offered specialty

The most offered specialty in each MIR call isFamily and Community Medicine (Family Medicine), with a total of2,455 placesthat intend to reinforce the first level of care. To them aspired, in the call of 2023, a total of12,668 physicians. As a curiosity, 74% of them came from Spanish universities, and 22% were from outside the EU.

The 10 most demanded specialties and how many sold out

The most and least demanded specialties do not vary much from one year to the next (they follow a fairly stable trend); that is, they are almost always the same and in the same number.

Specifically, in the MIR 2022, the 10 specialties that were previously sold out (and therefore the most in demand) were:

• Medical-Surgical Dermatology:sold out at number 721.
  
  
• Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery: sold out at number 1,039.
  
  
• Cardiology: sold out at issue 3,403.
  
  
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: sold out at number 3,700.
  
  
• Anesthesiology and Resuscitation: sold out at number 3,733.
  
  
• Ophthalmology: sold out at number 3,969.
  
  
• Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology: sold out at number 4,043.
  
  
• Otorhinolaryngology: sold out at number 4,081.
  
  
• Urology: sold out at number 4,172.
  
  
• Neurosurgery: sold out at number 4,292.

The 10 least demanded specialties

On the other hand, the 10 least demanded specialties of the MIR 2022 (the last to run out) were:

• Family and Community Medicineit was the last specialty that sold out its places, at number 9,930 (we must bear in mind that it is also the specialty that offers the most vacancies each year).
  
  
• Preventive medicine and public health: sold out at number 9,912.
  
  
• Clinical Biochemistry: sold out at number 9,908.
  
  
• Work Medicine: sold out at number 9,895.
  
  
• Clinical Analysis: sold out at number 9,776.
  
  
• Microbiology and Parasitology: was awarded at number 9,705.
  
  
• clinical pharmacology: sold out at number 9,253.
  
  
• Geriatrics: sold out at number 9,075.
  
  
• Pathological anatomy: sold out at number 8,455.
  
  
• Nuclear medicine: sold out at number 8,332.

Latest news from the MIR

HeMIR exam 2023It came with two important new features that should be taken into account:

👉The quota of places for non-EU citizensrose 6%(513).

👉The cutting notedropped from 35% to 25%of the average of the 10 best test scores.

List of academies to prepare the MIR exam

We leave you a list of academies where you can prepare for the MIR exam in Spain:

AMIR

• AMIR website
• Instagram:@academiaamir
• Foundation year: 2006
• Video of interest to know the academy:

Mir Asturias

• MIR Asturias website
• Instagram:@mirasturias
• Foundation year: 1988
• Video of interest to know the academy:

CTO Medicine

• CTO Medicina Group website
• Instagram:@ctomedicine_
• Foundation year: 1987
• Video of interest to know the academy:

PROMIR

• PROMISE website
• Instagram:@promir_esp
• Foundation year: 2017
• Video of interest to know the academy:

The portalCasiDoctorsHe made a comparative table with some of the most important academies, which may be useful to extract general information, with information about their experience, locations, contact, etc.:

Fuente:Casimedicos.com

💡👉If you don't know how to choose an academy, you can check our blog article,How to choose the academy for the MIR?, with practical and entertaining information and experiences of opponents in the respective academies.

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