Cristina Garcia Married | Salamanca (EFE) .- The MIR doctor with the best score in Castilla y León, Alejandro Olivares Hernández, has chosen to stay as an oncology assistant at the University Hospital of Salamanca, where he has trained.
“I think our oncology service is the best in Castilla y León and one of the best in Spain. On a professional level, it offers me enormous opportunities to grow and, on a personal level, it is the opportunity to be in the city that I want”, Olivares explained in an interview with EFE.
Olivares, a 29-year-old from Salamanca, studied Medicine at the University of Salamanca (USAL) and in 2018 chose the University Hospital as the first option to do his residency as an oncologist after being ranked 780 out of some 12,000 MIR candidates.
Note of 9.99 out of 10
During his residency he has followed his path of excellence by receiving a score of 9.99 out of 10 on a scale that assesses the five years of MIR according to criteria such as publications or clinical management activities.
This is the scoring system of the program of the Junta de Castilla y León to “retain the loyalty and attract the talent of the residents” of medicine, both to retain those who do their training in the community and to attract outstanding doctors from other places from Spain.
The incentive offered by the Board is a contract of up to three years, in which a percentage of up to 25% of the day is allocated to postgraduate training and research, including the preparation of doctoral thesis.
Stable job and desired position
Olivares finishes his MIR on May 24 and does not yet know when his contract as an assistant within this program will begin, but he is calm knowing that he has a stable job in sight and in the position he wants: the only one that is offered in Oncology at the Hospital de Salamanca.
Olivares considers that staying as a specialist after the MIR in Castilla y León is “relatively easy”, but that what is complex is “being able to choose a city as such”.
He is very happy with the “enormous opportunities” he has had in Salamanca and does not feel that he has missed anything by not being in one of the largest hospitals in Spain.
“I have some bosses who make the service grow a lot, with research, with publications. The former chief of oncology Juan Jesús Cruz, the current chief Emilio Fonseca; Edel del Barco, assistant specialist in lung cancer, and César Rodríguez, head of section and one of the most renowned oncologists in Spain”, he detailed.
Olivares is now looking forward to his new stage as a specialist, as a medical oncologist, with a focus on lung cancer and immunotherapy. EFE