Raquel Romero has not chosen a specialty and, if she stayed on the Island, she would choose Son Espases
Raquel Romero (Palma, 1998) got the highest grade of the first class of doctors from the Faculty of Medicine of the UIB and 47 of the 12,668 applicants at the state level for a MIR position remained. The position guarantees him the choice in the specialty he most desires but, curiously, he is not clear about it. Among her options she considers dermatology, anesthesia and hematology and, if she stays in the Balearic Islands, she would do so in Son Espases. In her favor, not only does the note play; with the current lack of professionals, any choice in the public system is welcome.
Romero will start the MIR this year although in this group not everything is about celebrations, “as residents we have a training contract, we are there to learn, but as things are now we are a fundamental part, without us there are jobs that would not be done. This should not be so because in the end we are learning », he criticizes. “In addition, after seven years studying, the first-year resident without guards charges about 1,100 euros,” he adds.
She is vindictive, a quality that she may have inherited from her father (the general secretary of the UGT of the Balearic Islands, Miguel Ángel Romero) or also because “in high school you don’t know much about these things but when you enter the career and you know the working conditions They demoralize you a bit, really.” Raquel Romero defends that the salary is fine but she emphasizes that “People are not aware of what it is to work 24 hours in a row serving people”.
When asked about the flight of toilets, “I think that most of us have the prospect of working in public health, and after a few years complement it with the private one, but I have also heard people who want to go abroad. In Germany they charge three times more », he replies. For Romero the solution is clear “If the working conditions were better they would not leave. At least they should be matched.” After all, he assures, most of them don’t go to another country for fun. The problems in medicine are aggravated when it comes to the Family specialty where “if the conditions changed they would choose it more,” she believes. “In the end this is very vocational but it is still a job,” she warns. In addition to the specialty he is going to opt for, Romero has research or teaching on the horizon, “I think that everything can be combined even if it is complicated.”
Regarding the test-type MIR test with which he has gained priority in his choice, «the worst has been the seven months of non-stop study», he assures. “It is similar to some oppositions but we do not access a public place for life but rather a few years of training, then we do not know what will happen,” she concludes.