BECOMING A DOCTOR IN SPAIN
The people who want to become a doctor in Spain, have to achieve good marks at high school. After that, they have to study for six years at university, where they are going to learn general medicine.
During the last three years of degree they have to practise at hospital where they will be in different specialities and teach by a doctor.
When the student completes his degree, he has to prepare a competitive examination called MIR. If he gets a post in a hospital, he will work there for about four or five years. During this period he will have to work hard, being on duty several times per week.
Eventhough it is really hard to become a doctor, I am sure that is worth it.
As Henry Ford said once, "If you find your ideal job, you will never work again"
(Pino)
But although just good marks are objectively required to start studying medicine, it is very important to have some special qualifications to work as a doctor. First of all, it’s important to have a good memory. You have to remember a great number of symptoms, diseases, syndromes… and then you have to be able to integrate all the pieces and manage to do the puzzle. A high self-esteem is necessary to take important decisions. You have to be strong too, to receive so many different feelings from the patients. You deal with the death almost every days, and that’s not very easy to do. To give bad news is something very hard, for the patient, but for the doctor too. This is why empathy is important. A doctor must be humane, because the patient is a human being. A really good doctor never will be proud of himself. Humbleness makes a doctor recognize his mistakes, and learn from them. All these things are important to be good in this job. However, it’s not until your working as a doctor when you realize its importance. The formative system just make you develop the medical knowledge. So only if you really know yourself you could make you this question before you start the degree: Would I be a good doctor?
(Esther Blanco)
But also the doctors have to continue their medical education after they become specialists. In Spain, the continuing medical education is carried out by several Scientific Societies of each speciality and the Medical Colleges in each province. The doctors can also go to medical congresses in Spain and in other countries in order to develop their medical knowledges.
The people who want to become a doctor in Spain, have to achieve good marks at high school. After that, they have to study for six years at university, where they are going to learn general medicine.
During the last three years of degree they have to practise at hospital where they will be in different specialities and teach by a doctor.
When the student completes his degree, he has to prepare a competitive examination called MIR. If he gets a post in a hospital, he will work there for about four or five years. During this period he will have to work hard, being on duty several times per week.
Eventhough it is really hard to become a doctor, I am sure that is worth it.
As Henry Ford said once, "If you find your ideal job, you will never work again"
(Pino)
But although just good marks are objectively required to start studying medicine, it is very important to have some special qualifications to work as a doctor.
First of all, it’s important to have a good memory. You have to remember a great number of symptoms, diseases, syndromes… and then you have to be able to integrate all the pieces and manage to do the puzzle.
A high self-esteem is necessary to take important decisions. You have to be strong too, to receive so many different feelings from the patients. You deal with the death almost every days, and that’s not very easy to do. To give bad news is something very hard, for the patient, but for the doctor too. This is why empathy is important. A doctor must be humane, because the patient is a human being.
A really good doctor never will be proud of himself. Humbleness makes a doctor recognize his mistakes, and learn from them.
All these things are important to be good in this job. However, it’s not until your working as a doctor when you realize its importance. The formative system just make you develop the medical knowledge. So only if you really know yourself you could make you this question before you start the degree: Would I be a good doctor?
(Esther Blanco)
But also the doctors have to continue their medical education after they become specialists. In Spain, the continuing medical education is carried out by several Scientific Societies of each speciality and the Medical Colleges in each province. The doctors can also go to medical congresses in Spain and in other countries in order to develop their medical knowledges.
(Abdulkader)