Overview
- Spain’s national residency assignment, which opened Monday, will match 15,084 ranked candidates to 9,275 posts by strict score order through May 27, with training due to start June 5.
- Dermatology’s 140 slots and Plastic Surgery’s 53 were taken on the first day, with the last dermatology post going at order number 486 and the last plastic surgery post at 623, showing intense demand.
- Top-ranked candidate Elena Bianca Ciobanu Selaru chose Dermatology at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, a high-profile pick that underscores the specialty’s pull among the best scores.
- The new Emergency Medicine specialty debuted with 82 places, and the SEMES society called that intake too low, citing ministry estimates that 500 to 600 new emergency doctors are needed each year for workforce turnover.
- Regional patterns emerged as Madrid offered the most total posts with 2,004, while Galicia drew five of the top 100 candidates in the morning turn, even as Family Medicine led the offer with 2,544 places but remained slower to attract early choices.