Overview
- About 34,553 candidates sat the standardized test across 25 venues to compete for 12,366 specialist training places covering Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.
- The exam kept the usual format of 200 questions plus 10 reserves over four and a half hours, with scoring of three points for a correct answer and a one‑point penalty for a wrong answer.
- Urgencias y Emergencias was offered for the first time with 82 national posts, including 11 in the Community of Madrid.
- Regional offers and incentives featured prominently, with Madrid leading 2,004 Medicine residencies and proposing salary supplements and longer contracts to retain new doctors.
- Despite a year‑on‑year increase in places, unions expect thousands of graduates to miss out on a post; official results are scheduled for February 24 ahead of the spring allocation phase.