2023-09-21 15:24:10
Gladis María Zelayadoctor in HondurasI had my sights set on making eThe MIR exam in Spain next year. Her partner resides here and she made the decision to begin the process of homologation of her title in 2021 to move when everything was ready. She was aware of the “long odyssey” that this certification entails, but what she did not contemplate was that, after more than two years of waiting, from the Ministry of Universities notified him, without an attached request, that his file was not complete. In this way, he finds himself in a administrative ‘limbo’ where ignorance of how to act and anger invade their thoughts. AND the dream to become a specialist is frustrated by, according to her, a “poor organization of the administrations.”
For Zelaya, the “lack of information” on the part of the Ministry and the “enormous” waiting times become the main problem of this approval. “After two long years, when you thought that everything was fine, they tell you that your file is not complete because some type of documentation is missing, but they do not send you the letter with the request that tells you what you need to close the process. It is frustrating. And to this day I still don’t know what data I need to deliver,” he detailed to Medical Writing.
Lack of information to validate the medical degree
In fact, this situation of helplessness that Zelaya is experiencing has led him to a point where “he no longer knows where to go.” “I called 060, I have filed a thousand complaints and claims, I have made the resend request and nothing. They never give me an answer. I have even traveled to the Ministry itself from Galicia to ask for my letter where the request comes from and they have refused to give it to me,” he emphasized.
Solution to open approval processes
As Possible solution to this type of problems, Zelaya has detailed that, from the administrations, They have to facilitate communication so that doctors with these problems can obtain an explanation of what is wrong in their documents and, thus, be able to correct it as soon as possible.
“If they are full of requests and cannot handle everything they should close the deadlines, because they are piling up. They still have the entire 2022 left and the new requests that the new decree has brought. That’s another, on many occasions they are homologating the documentation presented in the new one before those of the old decree,” he assured.
Loss of hope for MIR 2024
As of today, Zelaya considers the call to the MIR 2024 and even the next one. “When you have a requirement in your application and send the documents for resolution, the administrations take a year to respond and they can put another requirement again. That is, you can be another two years easily waiting. “It is a frustrating situation,” he acknowledged.
Furthermore, he has criticized that in Spain the image is “constantly” being given that doctors are needed and that professionals who want to work but who are unemployed are kept waiting in this way because of this system.
Two years waiting for doctor approval in Spain
A similar situation is what the Brazilian doctor is experiencing. Silvia Eutrópiowho has been residing in Spain for three years and began his approval process in 2021. According to what he told this newspaper, he was not informed until January 2023 that His file was incomplete and, like Zelaya, Nor did they explain the documents he needed to complete it.
“I have been in this homologation process for 32 months. I cannot work and I cannot take the MIR. Basically I have no life”
From that moment on, Eutrópio is in a constant ‘fight’ against the Ministry of Universities to find out the reason why his file is not closed. “I have called a thousand times and nothing. When you contact them they don’t know anything. They pass the phone between their colleagues, but always to no avail. I have been in this process for 32 months since I started. I can’t work and I can’t do the MIR. I basically have no life”, he lamented.
Common complaints before the Ministry of Universities
To educate herself about this situation, this doctor sought help from groups of non-EU doctors who were experiencing a similar problem. From there, they have already put several official complaintsbut the answer is always the same: “There are many procedures, everything is going very slowly and it is being resolved”.
Some words that, as he has stated, are always the same “copy and paste” as in previous messages and that have caused him to be
considering staying in Spain o return to Brazil, where he had already finished his residence. “If I stay in this country I will start working on other things that have nothing to do with my training because I have to live,” he acknowledged.
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