CMKP: How many residencies in spring proceedings

According to CMKP, 4208 residency and 9927 non-residency slots are available in the spring qualification procedure for medical specialties. Applications will be available from February 1 in the Education Monitoring System.

The Medical Center for Postgraduate Education has published a list of specialty vacancies by province: https://www.cmkp.edu.pl/ksztalcenie/postepowania-kwalifikacyjne

Areas in which the most residency spots are allocated:

459 - family medicine
414 - internal medicine
220 - general surgery
206 - pediatrics
206 - neurology
186 - anesthesiology and intensive care
186 - clinical oncology
180 - obstetrics and gynecology
175 - psychiatry
130 - neonatology
126 - musculoskeletal orthopedics and traumatology
118 - emergency medicine
95 - pathomorphology
89 - radiology and diagnostic imaging
88 - radiation oncology

Doctors submit an application to start specialization to the director of the CMKP through the governor of the province with jurisdiction over the first choice variant. The application should be submitted between February 1-28, 2024, indicating no more than 15 variants of choice (each variant should indicate the field, province and mode of specialization). For each selection variant, the doctor may indicate in preferred order no more than 3 units.

Formal evaluation of applications, assignment of a percentage of points and confirmation of the correctness of the data contained in the application, is carried out by March 31 this year by the governor in charge of the first option.

Once the application has been formally evaluated and points assigned, the application will be made available to the doctor via the SCM. The doctor may raise objections to the data contained in the application within 2 days from the date the application is made available in the SCM. If no objections are raised within 2 days, the basis for verification of the competitive procedure may not be errors in the data indicated in the application and in the scoring assigned. Ranking lists will be published in the SCM within 7 days from the date of completion of formal evaluation of all applications, i.e. by April 7 this year.

I STAGE OF PROCEEDINGS

The doctor, within 5 days from the date of publication of the ranking lists, confirms through the SCM the acceptance of the indicated specialty. Failure to confirm will be considered a withdrawal from the competition procedure in the first stage and the release of the allocated specialty place. A doctor who has not confirmed acceptance of a specialty place and a doctor who is on the list of doctors not qualified in the first stage shall be included in the second stage of the proceedings.

STAGE II PROCEEDINGS

The qualification results of the second stage will be published on the day following the completion of confirmation of acceptance of the specialty place in the SCM and on the websites of the qualification authorities. The doctor qualified in the second stage of the procedure shall confirm acceptance of the specialty place, using the SCM within 5 days from the date of publication of the ranking list. Failure to confirm is considered a withdrawal of the doctor from the qualification procedure. This decision is final if the third stage of the proceedings is not announced.

The lists of qualified and unqualified physicians will be immediately published in the SCM and on the websites of the qualifying authorities.

EVENTUAL - ADDITIONAL (third) STAGE OF PROCEDURE.

In the event that after the announcement of the final lists of qualified and unqualified physicians for specialty training there remain unused residency positions, the Minister of Health may decide to conduct an additional stage of the qualification procedure.

In the additional stage of the qualification procedure, only residency spots in priority medical fields may be awarded from the pool of training spots that were not used in earlier stages of the qualification procedure.

The Minister of Health will announce on the website of the Ministry of Health whether or not an additional stage of the qualification procedure has been carried out within 5 days of the announcement of the final lists of doctors qualified and not qualified for specialty training.

The additional stage of the qualification procedure is open to those who meet the following conditions:

1) will not be qualified in the qualification procedure (the additional stage does not include those who have confirmed acceptance of a place after either stage I or II of the qualification procedure);

2) have indicated at least one variant of choice involving a residency mode and a priority medical field, and have not been qualified at earlier stages of the procedure for this variant (if a person has been qualified for a variant at earlier stages of the procedure and has not confirmed acceptance of a place, this variant is not considered in the additional stage of the qualification procedure).

Source: CMKP