Overview
Four-year national MIR residency delivered in accredited teaching units; the official programme dates from 1996 and in July 2026 the Ministry of Health opened a prior public consultation on a new order approving an updated training programme, evaluation criteria and teaching-unit accreditation requirements.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- 4 years
- Start
- Not stated on the official page
- Positions
- Not stated on the official page
- Accreditation
- Official specialty programme (Comisión Nacional de la Especialidad; approved by resolution of 25 April 1996); update under consultation (July 2026)
- Department
- Not yet verified
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Medical degree; selection through the national MIR examination
- Language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Not stated on the official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on the official page
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on the official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on the official page
- Application method
- National MIR examination and place allocation (Formación Sanitaria Especializada)
- Documents
- Not yet verified
- Contact
- Not yet verified
Funding
- Funding
- Salaried resident contract (relación laboral especial de residencia)
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified