Overview
- The Ministry of Health closed the national MIR/FSE adjudication on May 27 and assigned all 12,362 training places, with new residents required to take up posts around June 4–5 and the ministry launching an extraordinary second‑round 'repesca' to cover later vacancies.
- Resident groups warned on the final days of allocation that the supply of places does not guarantee quality training because supervision, tutoring and decent working conditions remain unresolved.
- Regional unions in Madrid and Catalunya have instructed dozens of hospital services to stop doing voluntary extra hours (known as 'peonadas') from June 1, a measure that directly reduces capacity used to cut waiting lists.
- Metges de Catalunya presented data showing waiting lists worsened between Dec 2024 and Dec 2025 with wide territorial gaps, and Galicia’s health authority reported more than 245,000 medical acts suspended after recent strike actions.
- If negotiations fail, the Asociación MIR España has threatened an indefinite residents’ strike from September, which could further strain scheduled training starts, patient access and efforts to retain young doctors in underserved areas.