The degree of medicine teaching was consolidated in the University Hospital of Getafe.

-the Vice-Counsellor of healthcare starts the academic

-the community leads the teaching of medicine

Spain, 2011-September the Vice-Counsellor of healthcare, Patricia Flores, kicked off the academic degree of Medicine of the Universidad Europea de Madrid. The University Hospital of Getafe thus receives the second promotion of students joining already more than 90 students in training that professionals of the Center distribute the pregraduada teaching.

Accompanied by the Rector and the Dean of the University, Águeda Benito and Elena Gazapo respectively, as well as the Manager of the hospital, Ricardo Herranz and the head of General Surgery, Dr. Manuel Limones, responsible for giving the inaugural lecture, the Vice-Counsellor he wanted to highlight the educational leadership of health institutions of the community of Madrid at University and postgraduate level, thanks to the signing of eight conventions for the teaching of medicine, more than 1,500 new residents who receives annually and 5,000 complete their postgraduate training as residents each year.

Madrid, on training in medicine

The community of Madrid is home to 15 per cent of the students of any Spain medicine and in the call for health training 2010 / 2011 rose almost 6 per cent the number of places that offer Madrid, reaching assumed 18 per cent of the national total of seats.

Hospital La Paz was chosen by the student number one in the MIR test, as well as four of the top ten and half of the 100 students with better note in this test, who also chose Madrid for its specialized training.

The community now forms 5.698 optional through the MIR program 3.940 on hospital specialties, of which 512 were in Hospital La Paz, 472 on October 12, 384 in the Ramón y Cajal, 268 in the Puerta de Hierro, 396 in the Clinical Hospital, 228 in the Princess60 in the child Jesus, 484 in the Gregorio Marañón, 92 in the Móstoles, 172 in the Prince of Asturias, 136 in Leganés, 172 in Getafe, 96 in Fuenlabrada, 144 in La Fundación Hospital Alcorcón, 16 in the Hospital of the Henares and 4respectively, Infanta Leonor and Carlos III. Fundación Jiménez Díaz, the central Hospital of the defense, the Red Cross and the Infanta Elena add other 292.

Furthermore, 1.428 residents of four specialities (Psychiatry, family medicine and community medicine occupational and preventive medicine and public health) rotate throughout their training by various hospital services and primary care. Other 330 residents complete their training as specialists in nursing in Madrid health institutions.

The formation of our future doctors and nurses is carried in the different faculties of some 760 faculty, of which 70 would be professors, approximately 140 holders and 550 partners.

Second cycle training

The community of Madrid is a landmark in the teaching I undergraduate and postgraduate medical studies, since it has 1,290 spaces for that second cycle of eight faculties medicine students (Complutense, autonomous Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, King Juan Carlos, Alfonso X El Sabio ”, Francisco de Vitoria, San Pablo CEU and Europea de Madrid)made their practices in the regional administration centres.

To develop the práctico-clínica training of nursing students, have also signed cooperation agreements between the Laín Entralgo Agency and the Madrid health service universities Alfonso X “El Sabio”, Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid Complutense, AlcaláEuropean Madrid, Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Pontificia de Salamanca, King Juan Carlos, and San Pablo CEU.

Balancing teaching and assistance

the Manager of the University Hospital of Getafe wanted to make mention of the 46 optional as part of the body teaching. El Hospital is developing a major effort to adapt to the changing needs of students and combine teaching with assistance; training future doctors is a big challenge and the involvement of all practitioners is total ”She said Herranz.

The arrival of this second great promotion already nearly ninety students, 30 of which belong to the fourth course, beginning a new stage in the teaching of medicine in which clinical practice continued at the Centre becomes the basis of the teaching.