The National Examination for Specialization Candidates (ENARM) is held every year in September, and the results are published in November. This is a mandatory step for people who have just finished their medical degree and want to pursue specialization, know, What should you do if you have not passed ENARM?
Every year, this exam worries general practitioners, because of its difficulty, and they practically have a year to prepare, for example, the payment for the exam is made in March, the last week in September is taken, the second week in October. the User’s Guide of the Specialty Selection Platform was published and the results were announced in November.
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What should you do if you have not passed ENARM?
In case you are not selected, you have the opportunity to present it again on the next occasion, but you can only apply to one of these specialties:
- Pathological anatomy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic image
- Preventive medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Medicine of sports and physical activities
- Pneumology
- Audiology, otoneurology and phoniatrics
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Quality of clinical care
- Emergency medicine
- Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery
- General surgery
- Occupational and environmental medicine
- Clinical pathology
- Epidemiology
- Family medicine
- Pediatrics Medical genetics
- Internal medicine
- Psychiatry
- Geriatrics
- legal medicine
- Radiation oncology
- Gynecology and obstetrics
- Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
- Traumatology and orthopedics
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When are the portfolios of the selected doctors published?
The slides were published in November on the website of the Inter-Institutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources for Health (CIFRHS), which can be viewed at this page: http://www.cifrhs.salud.gob.mx/.
What happens if there is a tie between two or more fans?
In accordance with the Guidelines for the Specialty Selection Procedure, if there is a tie between two or more candidates, the following criteria will be applied:
- The highest number of correct answers in reagents according to the level of high difficulty.
- The highest number of correct answers in the reagents according to the level of average difficulty.
- The highest number of correct answers in tasks performed in English, of high difficulty.
- The highest number of correct answers in the tasks is carried out in English of medium difficulty.
- The highest number of correct answers in the block of internal medicine questions.
- The highest number of correct answers in the block of questions from pediatrics.
- The largest number of correct answers in the gynecology-obstetrics block of questions.
- The highest number of correct answers in the block of surgery questions.
- Date of birth ordered by year (first considering the last year); month (from January to December) and day (from 01 to 31).
- Alphabetical order with regard to the first letter of the first surname and if the tie persists, the second letter of the first surname should be taken into account.
- Alphabetical order with regard to the first letter of the second surname and if the tie persists, the second letter of the second surname should be taken into account.
You can review the guidelines here.