[HIGHLIGHTS] Without MIR of infectious diseases because "in Spain there are infectologists 'without papers': people who have made a living to train themselves"

Next week, on April 5, the process of choosing specialties for future generations of Spanish doctors opens. Infectious diseases is recognized as a clinical specialty in all EU countries (except Spain) In practically all Latin American countries and in the United States and Canada.

In Spain, by law, it should also be: the decree that regulates specialized health training, and which the Government approved in 2022, establishes 5 criteria for a specialty to be recognized as such. The specialty program proposed by the Seimc includes five years of training.