[Urology specialization. Part III. Opinion of resident internal physicians]

At present the only official way for the training and obtention of a degree of specialist in Urology is through the Resident In-house Physician (MIR) program. With the passing of time both the rights and the wrongs of the training program under consideration come to light. From the former we try to obtain the maximum yield and with the latter we attempt to improve them or withdraw them if obsolete. The purpose of this survey was to evaluate from the Urology resident in-house physicians point of view, their training term. To that end, we have chosen the MIR examination of groups for the years between 1988 and 1992, both inclusive, a population that amounts to 252 subjects. There has been three releases of the questionnaire to all Teaching Hospitals within the national geography but only 81 (32.1%) resident physicians have answered it. The extensive questionnaire was divided in 6 sections: demographics, personal evaluation of the hospital staff and service, health care activities (admittance schedule, out-patient surgery, operating theatre and emergencies), non-health care activities (publications, attendance to congresses, etc...), evaluation of the MIR system, and professional aspirations.