- Currently, only 39% of applicants who present the ENARM manage to become residents.
- Although the ENARM call mentions 27 direct entry options, there is a specialty with no places available, which one is it?
- Given the lack of interest, it has been mentioned that it is a specialty condemned to disappearance.
A point that has drawn the attention of National Examination of Aspirants to Medical Residencies (ENARM) 2023 is that there is a specialty with no places available. Therefore, it is the only one of the 27 direct entry options that cannot be selected. It has even been mentioned that it could disappear, but does that mean that it is no longer necessary?
Although Medicine is the most extensive professional career that exists, training does not end upon graduating from university. All doctors must be updated periodically to be aware of the latest developments that appear in the health environment.
For their part, for those interested in becoming specialists it is necessary to meet a mandatory requirement. Its about ENARM Broadly speaking, it is a test that, through multiple choice clinical cases, measures the knowledge of the applicants. In the end, only the highest scores obtain a place as residents.
In addition to the complexity of the test, the main problem is that there are very few spaces available in hospitals. To date, only 39 percent of applicants get a place. While the rest must wait a year to repeat the test or try other paths of professional improvement.
All direct entry medical specialties that exist
The only official authority with everything related to the ENARM is the Interinstitutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources for Health (CIFRHS). Within its call there are 27 direct entry specialties that general practitioners can choose from.
- 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.
- Legal Medicine.
- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
- Preventive medicine.
- Pneumology.
- Ophthalmology.
- Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.
- Clinical Pathology.
- Pediatrics.
- Psychiatry.
- Radio Oncology.
- Traumatology and orthopedics.
The only ENARM specialty without available places
Despite the above, in this 2023 edition there is an option for which there are no places available in the Mexican and foreign category. Is about Legal Medicine and therefore, from the beginning it is an option that all candidates who took the test must discard.
For its part, this situation is not new because the same thing happened in the 2022 edition. Given this panorama, it has been mentioned that it is a specialty condemned to disappearance.
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