Graduated doctors after 1995 and foreigners who have their title approved in Spain will be able to access from now on the title of the Emergency and Emergencies specialty, created in 2024. So far, more than 20,000 professionals in these situations were vetoed by a requirement of Royal Decree 610/2024, and that the Supreme Court has now invalidated by considering it “discriminatory”. The demand filed by the, in which they requested the cancellation of this requirement for extraordinary access to the specialty, has received the approval of the contentious-administrative room.
“From the ICOMEM, we value this sentence very positively, which benefits thousands of medical professionals who have been carrying out their work in the emergency and emergency services of Madrid and throughout Spain,” the institution stressed through a press release. “The exclusion of this group was a clear discrimination that the Supreme Court has considered lacking justification,” they say.
In July 2024, the creation of the Emergency and Emergency Medicine specialty was approved. Until that time, this was a medical specialty that many professionals already practiced in emergency services, without being accredited as such because there was no official degree. The, of July 2, ended a unique situation in Europe, since there was no specific preparation in this area for resident internal doctors (MIR), so that the emergency services were worth specialists from other areas.
However, the decree that “will be able to access the title of specialist in Emergency Medicine and Emergencies by the extraordinary route people with a medical degree/or specialist in Health Sciences and the people enabled for the exercise of general or family medicine, as established in Royal Decree 853/1993, of June 4 (…)”, so that all graduates were left out after 1995. With homologated titles in Spain, who can also benefit from the ruling to access the specialty by extraordinary route.
The Supreme Court has considered that the demand of the ICOMEM was “inclusive” and “without prejudice to other groups such as the specialist doctors already enabled or in the process of obtaining the title,” says the IComem. The school itself had alerted that this veto would have a negative impact on the emergency services, already very touched in itself because it suffers from health in a generalized way.
