Self-improvement and the desire to become a specialist lead thousands of general practitioners to take the National Examination of Applicants for Medical Residencies (ENARM) each year. It is a test that everyone talks about although it is not the only way available. You can also choose to pursue a master’s degree or simply practice the profession at the end of social service. But do you know what are the topics you should study?
In a traditional way, this exam is carried out during the last days of September. While one of its characteristics is that it consists of a summary of everything seen during the Medicine career.
The authority in charge of its realization and application is the Interinstitutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources for Health (CIFRHS). For the 2020 edition, a total of eight thousand reagents for the construction of different versions of exams. Although in a conventional way each one is made up of 450 and is designed to be answered in a maximum of eight hours.
Exam structure
However, the structure has not changed in recent years. It is made up of clinical cases focused on Public Health, Emergency and Family Medicine.
Whereas the format of clinical cases contains one to three questions and there is only one correct option in the modality of the best answer and three distractors. While the test is focused on four core specialties.
- Internal Medicine.
- Pediatrics.
- Gynecology-Obstetrics.
- General Surgery.
What should be studied?
With regard to the topics that you should study there are many options. Although there are many preparation courses for the ENARM, in the end they all start from the same. Each is based on the Clinical Practice Guidelines (GPC) so they are the fundamental documents.
For its part, the portal Examine provides an overview of some topics that should be part of the study for any of the editions of this test.
- Cardiology.
- General Surgery.
- Dermatology.
- Endocrinology.
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics.
- Gynecology and Obstetrics.
- Hematology.
- Infectology.
- Nephrology.
- Pneumology.
- Neurology.
- Ophthalmology.
- Oncology.
- ORL.
- Pediatrics.
- Psychiatry.
- Rheumatology.
- Traumatology and orthopedics.
- Emergencies
- Urology.
But if something characterizes the ENARM, it is that each year it presents modifications. Throughout history the test has changed to try to keep up to date with what is happening in the world. One of the clearest examples occurred in 2009 when the test included several items about influenza, which was then the main novelty.
While in 2020 something quite similar happened but now focused on Covid-19. If you presented it, you know that it was one of the topics that was asked in the exam. Although due to the impact of the disease, which has already caused the largest pandemic in the last 100 years, it is certain that it will continue in the following editions. In the same way, among the recent news are questions of dentistry.
The most important thing is that regardless of the year in which you present the ENARM, always prepare well in advance. It is a very complicated test that requires months of study to have a high probability of passing it and getting a place.