The Government of the Canary Islands has reported that it will increase the number of training places by ten with two more residents in Psychiatry, two in Clinical Psychology, one in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and five more in Mental Health Nursing.
The Canary Islands has been one of the few autonomous communities in the country that has managed to fill 100% of its places offered in the specialized health training call, a total of 436 places for MIR and EIR, both in Primary and Hospital Care
The General Directorate of Mental Health and Addictions is holding a course aimed at MIR, EIR and PIR tutors that focused on teaching methodologies, programs and evaluation of specialist training based on competences
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands reports that the Canary Islands Health Service will train from the 2024-2025 call a total of 41 new resident health professionals each year in the area of mental health, both resident internal doctors (MIR) as resident internal nurses (EIR) and resident internal psychologists (PIR).
Of these 41 professionals, twelve are MIRs in Psychiatry, two in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ten in Clinical Psychology and seventeen in Mental Health EIRs. Currently, in the Canary Islands during this year 2024 a total of 65 professionals are training in the area of Mental Health: 31 in Psychiatry, nineteen in Mental Health Nursing, fourteen in Clinical Psychology and one in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Increase of ten places in the next call
The Canary Islands Health Service has increased the number of training places in the field of mental health in the Canary Islands by ten, for the call corresponding to 2024-2025, with two more residents in Psychiatry, two in Clinical Psychology, one in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and five in Mental Health Nursing.
The Canary Islands in the call corresponding to the year 2024 of specialized health training offered a total of 436 places, which have been fully occupied, the archipelago being one of the few regions in the country that manages to occupy 100% of its places.
It should be noted that in the call corresponding to 2024, in the Canary Islands a place for Legal and Forensic Medicine has been offered for the first time, for the province of Las Palmas.
Training of tutors and teachers
The Multiprofessional Teaching Unit of Mental Health of Gran Canaria, attached to the General Directorate of Mental Health and Addictions of the Canary Islands Health Service, has taught this week a workshop course aimed at tutors and teachers of specialized health training in Mental Health.
Structured in face-to-face and non-face-to-face sessions, the course was aimed at tutors and teachers of residents in Psychiatry, Nursing and Clinical Psychology in the field of specialized mental health training.
The activity, held at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria with the collaboration of Lundbeck, offered a total of 35 hours of training and served to update knowledge on teaching methodologies, programs and evaluation of specialist training based on competences.
The program was taught by Jesús Manuel Morán Barrios, professor and international advisor in Medical Education, specialist in Nephrology and graduate in senior Management at the Spanish Society of Specialized Health Training SEFSE-Areda; and by Pilar Ruiz de Gauna, PhD in Education Sciences, consultant and international advisor in Medical Education of SEFSE-Areda.
After the general session, the program of the first day focused on the concept of competence, how to train in competences and keys for program management. On the second day, the training session addressed the development of an evaluation system to assess competences.
The training of health professionals requires continuous reflection and new updated competences are needed. For this, the training of tutors and training managers in educational methodologies is essential, the final objective of the course being to learn how to manage and develop a specialized and competence-based training plan.
The continuous training of health personnel is a priority of the Ministry of Health to promote quality care and that is part of one of the strategic lines of the Mental Health Plan of the Canary Islands 2019-2023.
