Seven resident internal doctors (MIR) of Family and Community Medicine and Geriatrics have completed their studies in Lanzarote. They have completed their specialty in the Management of Sanitary Services of the Health Area of Lanzarote, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. After finishing their residency, they received their accreditation in an act celebrated this Friday, in the assembly hall of the Island Council.
The manager of Sanitary Services of Lanzarote, José Luis Aparicio, participated in this act accompanied by the medical directors of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital and the Insular Hospital of Lanzarote, Carlos García Cerpa and Mariola González, respectively, the director of Primary Care of the Management of Sanitary Services of Lanzarote, Aniuska Sutil, and the members of the Teaching Commission, in addition to colleagues and relatives.
The new specialists presented to the assistants the projects carried out during their years of residency, works that have been valued and approved by the respective teaching units. Thus, the specialists in Family and Community Medicine presented Clinical demographic characterization of patients taking aspirin in primary prevention in the Health Area of Lanzarote 2021/2023 and What is the prevalence of asthma in Lanzarote in the adult patient?.
For its part, the specialist in Geriatrics presented Healthy aging. Multidimensional community intervention program for the prevention of frailty, sarcopenia and improvement of psychofunctional performance in the elderly adult, a work for which she received the Dr. González Jaraba Special Research Grant from the College of Physicians of Las Palmas.
New specialists
In addition to these seven specialists, on May 22, thirteen new resident internal doctors (MIR) of different medical specialties and eleven resident internal nurses (EIR) will join the Health Area of Lanzarote. In total, during the next years, 73 residents will be trained in the Primary Care centers and in the two hospitals of the island.
It is also expected that next year another twenty-four residents of Medicine and Nursing will join for their training in the Management of Sanitary Services of Lanzarote.
The health centers dependent on the Management of Sanitary Services of Lanzarote have accreditation for the teaching of the medical specialties of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Geriatrics and Family and Community Care.
This accreditation allows that both in the Primary Care centers and in the hospitals attached to the Management the formative period of MIR is developed, which has a duration of between four and five years and that has a double theoretical practical aspect in which the students receive teaching at the same time that they carry out professional activity.
In that time, the residents participate in courses and seminars on different topics such as bioethics, communication, sanitary management or emergencies and carry out different studies and scientific communications.