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The examination for the Medical Intern Resident (MIR) is a multiple-choice test aimed at ranking candidates for specialized medical training positions in Spain. The objective of this study is to provide an objective analysis of this test in its 2022 edition as an evaluative tool for discrimination, with a particular focus on the field of radiology...
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Psychometrics plays a vital role in evaluating educational research, including the analysis of multiple-choice exams. This study aims to improve the discriminatory ability of the “Médico Interno Residente” (MIR) medical exam in Spain, used to rank candidates for specialized healthcare training, through psychometric analysis.
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This research explores the results that an examinee would obtain if taking a multiple-choice questions test in which they have doubts as to what the true answer is among different options. This problem is analyzed by making use of combinatorics and analytical and sampling methodologies. The Spanish exam through which doctors become medical speciali...
Introducción. En España, el acceso a la formación médica especializada se hace a través de la prueba MIR. Esta prueba la convocan anualmente desde 1978 los Ministerios de Sanidad, y Educación y Formación Profesional. Así, teniendo en cuenta tanto el resultado que se obtiene en la prueba como el baremo promedio del grado, se asigna un número de orde...
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Introducción: El examen de acceso a la especialización médica en España, conocido como prueba MIR, se convoca anualmente desde 1978 y se realiza simultáneamente en diversas sedes distribuidas por toda España. El acceso a las distintas especialidades médicas está condicionado por el baremo académico o puntaje conseguido en el grado de Medic...
Background and Objectives: The aim of the present research is to study the questions used in the 2018 MIR exam (a test that allows access to specialized medical training in Spain), describe their psychometric properties, and evaluate their quality. Materials and Methods: This analysis is performed with the help of classical test theory (CTT) and it...
Background and objective
Psychometrics is a simple, intuitive approach used in educational research and in multiple-choice questionnaires. Since 2009, the competitive examination through which access to residency programs in Spain is determined (MIR) has included questions related to radiological images. The objective of this paper is to show the r...
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Neurology is one of the medical specialties offered each year to residency training candidates. This project analyses the data associated with candidates choosing neurology residency programmes in recent years.
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Data related to specialty selection were obtained from official reports by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Ser...
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La psicometría es una técnica sencilla e intuitiva que se utiliza en el campo de la docencia y en el de los cuestionarios de respuesta múltiple. El examen MIR incluye desde el año 2009 preguntas asociadas a imagen radiológica. El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar los resultados del análisis psicométrico de estas p...
Introducción. En España, el procedimiento reglado de acceso a la formación médica especializada tipo MIR exige la superación de un examen. El examen es un ejercicio tipo test de respuesta múltiple. Superado éste, se bareman los méritos académicos previos de los aspirantes. La ponderación de ambos valores permite sumarlos y ordenar a los aspirantes...
Introduction: In Spain, the regulated procedures of specialized medical training impose the passing of the MIR test. After this, the candidates choose the preferred specialty according to the order number obtained. The order number depends on the score of the applicant in the MIR exam and their academic record. Subjects and methods: The database us...
Introduction:
Neurology is one of the medical specialties offered each year to residency training candidates. This project analyses the data associated with candidates choosing neurology residency programmes in recent years.
Methods:
Data related to specialty selection were obtained from official reports by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social...
Introduction:
Gastroenterology is one of the medical specialties offered to residency training candidates each year. This project analyzes the data associated with the choice of a Gastroenterology residency program in recent years.
Materials and methods:
Data related to specialty selection were obtained from official reports with regard to the a...
Objective
To analyze the profile of residency candidates choosing the specialty of diagnostic radiology in function of variables related to the positions available in different years.
Materials and methods
We compiled the data published on the Spanish Ministry of Health's website during the acts celebrated to allow residency candidates to choose p...
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To analyze the profile of residency candidates choosing the specialty of diagnostic radiology in function of variables related to the positions available in different years.
Material and methods:
We compiled the data published on the Spanish Ministry of Health's website during the acts celebrated to allow residency candidates to choos...
Introducción. En España, el acceso a la formación médica especializada, imprescindible para ejercer como médico especialista, se realiza a través de la prueba MIR. Superada esta prueba, los aspirantes pueden acceder a la formación en distintas especialidades ofertadas por numerosos hospitales a lo largo de todo el país.
Sujetos y métodos. Para este...
Introducción.
El Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad de España convoca anualmente el examen de acceso a la formación sanitaria especializada. La comisión calificadora de esta prueba es la encargada de aprobar el cuaderno de preguntas de examen e invalidar las preguntas que considere improcedentes. El presente trabajo propone una me...
Introduction: In Spain, to practice as a medical specialist, it is required to have the certification of the appropriate medical specialty. In order to have access to a medical specialist training programme, it is mandatory to overcome the MIR test. Passed the test, MIR training programs accessed in different hospitals and teaching units are relati...
Una paciente de 43 años, con edentulismo maxilomandibular parcial posterior bilateral, acude a la consulta para someterse a una rehabilitación con implantes. Presenta múltiples restauraciones antiguas con composite en los dientes maxilares anteriores.
Objective: The objectives of the first Spanish Consensus Conference on Sinus Bone Graft were trying to reach agreements points on the major controversies of this technique, and translate them in a summary document. Material and method: During the 17th and 18th of October of 2008 took place in Oviedo (Spain) the Conference, sponsored by the Spanish...
Objective: The objectives of the first Spanish Consensus Conference on Sinus Bone Graft were trying to reach agreements points on the major controversies of this technique, and translate them in a summary document. Material and method: During the 17th and 18th of October of 2008 took place in Oviedo (Spain) the Conference, sponsored by the Spanish...
The development of squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa) around dental implants is an uncommon pathological manifestation. This case report describes a patient with history of oral lichen planus (OLP) and previous SCCa of the gingiva who developed SCCa adjacent to symphyseal implants.
An 81-year-old edentulous woman with history of OLP developed an in sit...
Botryoid odontogenic cyst (BOC) is considered as an unusual multilocular variant of lateral periodontal cyst (LPC). Review of the literature indicates that this lesion has higher risk of recurrence than LPC, but objective reasons are still unknown. The aim of this study is identify main clinical and pathological variables associated with the risk o...
The mandibular infected buccal cyst is an uncommon lesion associated with the permanent mandibular first or second molar in children just prior to tooth eruption. The World Health Organization includes this lesion under the category of paradental cyst and suggests the term "mandibular infected buccal cyst" (MIBC) for lesions that occur on the bucca...
Abstract: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is defined as a process whose objective is the selection of the best scientific arguments for the resolution of problems in the medical practice. Phylosophically, it is a new paradigm that has been extended to all the sanitary professions (Evidence Based Surgery, Evidence Based Dentistry, etc.), sustained by...
To evaluate the primary or secondary involvement of the submandibular gland in floor of mouth squamous cell carcinoma.
An analytic-observational study of prospective type was carried out on 31 patients operated for floor of mouth carcinoma, between June 1993 and January 1996, in a reference hospital for a population of 1,100,000 inhabitants. The in...
Stafne bone cyst of the mandible is the only described destructive bone lesion that is highly localized, nonprogressive, but nonhealing. Such defects usually occur unilaterally, however, bilateral defects are occasionally reported. This paper reports 4 cases of Stafne's bone cyst, one of which showed bilateral presentation. Only four previous cases...
The aim of this study was to use densitometry of lateral skull teleradiographs to evaluate the changes that occurred in the lower lip and chin after orthodontic or orthodontic-surgical treatment of Class III malocclusion. Forty teleradiographs from 20 patients with mandibular prognathism were made at the beginning and end of treatment. In ten of th...
