Since the call for applications was published ENARM 2024 It drew attention that there is a disappearing direct entry medical specialty. The reasons have not yet been explained, although it could be due to the little interest shown by applicants during recent editions.
He exam It is classified as the most complex that a health professional can face. Although perhaps the biggest difficulty is that there are too many doctors who present it but very few places available.
What is the medical specialty that disappears from ENARM 2024?
Back to the central topic, the official document of the Interinstitutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources for Health (CIFRHS) It has a very big difference compared to previous editions. In it ENARM 2024 disappears a direct entry medical specialty because it will no longer be able to be chosen by the applicants.
When reviewing the call, it stands out that Legal Medicine It no longer appears among the options that can be chosen. Therefore it is a specialty that seems to be condemned to extinction.
An unnecessary medical specialty?
On the other hand, the decision is not surprising because since the last edition it seemed that it was an inevitable trend. Although Legal Medicine did appear in the ENARM 2023 In the end it was the only specialty for which there were no places available.
ENARM 2023: The 5 medical specialties that offer FEWEST places
The medical specialties with the fewest places available in the ENARM 2023
- Legal Medicine – 0
- Medicine of Physical and Sports Activity – 12
- Preventive Medicine – 12
- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging – 28
- Audiology, Otoneurology and Phoniatrics – 36
What is the objective of Legal Medicine?
It is the medical specialty that focuses on all social problems that require a medical opinion. The Legal Medicine Its purpose is the use of medical, legal, administrative, ethical and related science knowledge for the application, development and improvement of Law.
Something quite important is that it is not a branch of law because the person who exercises it must be a doctor. With this in mind, the one who exercises it is known as medical examiner.
What is ENARM?
He ENARM It is an objective and consensual instrument for measuring knowledge in the context of the practice of general medicine, which constitutes the first stage of the process to enter the profession. Medical residence.
He ENARM It is developed through audited and notarized processes during the exam application process; It has a comprehensive security system that guarantees the quality, security and confidentiality of all processes.
What is the new medical specialty of ENARM 2024?
On the other hand, although Legal Medicine It is the specialty of ENARM 2024 that disappears, there is another that was included in the call for the first time. Is about Palliative Medicine and will last for 3 years. With this, the total number of options that applicants can choose remains at 27.
ENARM 2024 surprises and offers a new medical specialty: What is it?
What is the objective of Palliative Medicine?
The palliative care They focus on caring for patients who have a serious or life-threatening illness. One of its characteristics is that it focuses on the person and not on the discomfort.
What direct entry medical specialties can be taken in Mexico?
- Pathological anatomy.
- Anesthesiology.
- Audiology, Otoneurology and Phoniatrics.
- Quality of Clinical Care.
- General Surgery.
- Epidemiology.
- Medical Genetics.
- Geriatrics.
- Gynecology and Obstetrics.
- Imaging, Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
- Medicine of Physical and Sports Activity.
- Rehabilitation Medicine.
- Emergency Medicine.
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
- Family Medicine.
- Internal Medicine.
- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
- Palliative Medicine.
- Preventive medicine.
- Pneumology.
- Ophthalmology.
- Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.
- Clinical Pathology.
- Pediatrics.
- Psychiatry.
- Radio Oncology.
- Traumatology and orthopedics.
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