Family photo of the farewell ceremony of the ninth promotion MIR of HM Hospitales
HM Hospitales once once more reinforces its commitment to the specialization of healthcare professionals by complete the training of the ninth class of Internal Resident Physician (MIR) and receive the one who begins her preparation period in the hospital centers of the Group. In this way, the Group aligns itself with one of its strategic objectives, such as the firm commitment to promoting Teaching as a fundamental way to guarantee the best possible quality of care for patients.
This reality has the highest consideration within HM Hospitales to the point that traditionally a welcome and farewell ceremony, which has the sponsorship of one of the company’s most important doctors. On this occasion, this distinction went to Paula Villares Fernández, head of the Internal Medicine Service at the HM Sanchinarro University Hospital, and each of the tutors from each specialty receiving residents also participated in the act.
Previously, Juan Abarca Cidón, president of HM Hospitales, offered a warm farewell and welcome to the residents involved and stressed that, “for HM Hospitales, firing these specialists and receiving a new batch is at the same time, a pride, a commitment and a motivation. This type of Teaching, together with university activity and R+D+i, represents a commitment to consolidation of our comprehensive health care projectin which residents are guaranteed state-of-the-art training and total immersion in the specialty as a vehicle to achieve the best care for our patients”.
First resident of Medical Oncology
Specifically, there are seven doctors who will specialize in various Group centers in Madrid and Barcelona starting this July, and for the first time a Medical Oncology resident is received, a therapeutic area that was authorized by HM Hospitales in 2021 by the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare. This same institution has also granted the Group during this 2022 the accreditation to formar MIR in Urology and General Surgerywhich denotes express recognition of the Group’s commitment to training, from Private Health, the largest possible number of doctors and specialties.
Villares, in his speech, reminded both those who are leaving and those who are arriving that, “with the help of your talents, aspire to heal, but know well that this goal will often not be possible, and this should not discourage you. Furthermore, it must lead you to understand that the act of healing, so often an unattainable goal, must be accompanied by the one that will always be possible to carry out, which is the act of caring. The patient must always be worthy of an attitude of excellence that you must maintain as a premise throughout your life. Excellence in form and substance, in daily treatment, in study hours, in the exquisite care that each patient deserves regardless of their condition”.
The residents of this new development are going to start their specialization in Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Radiation Oncology and Pediatrics. In this way, and adding Medical Oncology, Pediatric Nursing, Nuclear Medicine and, since 2023, Urology and General Surgery, there are nine specialties, between Medicine and Nursing, that HM Hospitales has offered since 2009 when it was the first private hospital group to obtain accreditation for train medical specialists in Spain.
More than fifty
On the other hand, there are four residents who have completed their specialization in the Group’s hospitals this year, and who began this process in 2016. In total, they are 22 health professionals who are currently being trained in the Group, a figure that will gradually be added to the 37 MIRs who have completed their specialization at HM Hospitales. In this sense, the scientific director of the HM Hospitales Research Foundation, Jose María Castellano, highlighted the fact that specialization is offered from a private institution. “In Spain it is still uncommon for doctors to do their MIR specialty in the private sector, but being a smaller number they receive very individualized training and with a high degree of supervision by their tutors. This is important as it gives them the possibility to choose to perform a greater number of diagnostic techniques and therapeutics, as in most cases there is only one resident per specialty in their year of training. In this sense, the high level of technological investment that has been carried out in the last decade in the private sector also guarantees that they are equipped with the capacities to use the latest technological platforms”.
The specializations in Medicine and Nursing of HM Hospitales and that they develop in the Community of Madrid in the university hospitals HM Madrid, HM Montepríncipe, HM Torrelodones, HM Sanchinarro, HM Nuevo Belén and HM Puerta del Sur and in Barcelona in the Hospital HM Nens. Specifically, they are Pediatric Nursing, Pediatrics and their specific areas, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy Oncology and Medical Oncology: to which we must add Urology and General Surgery, which will come into operation in 2023.
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