HLA Moncloa University, accredited as a MIR Teaching Unit

The HLA Moncloa University Hospital (Madrid) has achieved its first accreditation as a MIR Teaching Unit in the speciality of Intensive Care Medicine, starting the next academic year.   

For this certification, “the request of the center itself to become a Teaching Unit, the favorable report of the corresponding Teaching Commission and the competent body in matters of specialized health training of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and compliance with the program prepared by the National Specialty Commission, approved by the State Secretariat of Universities and Research of the Ministry of Education and Sciences,” details Dr. Vicente Gómez-Tello, professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the European University of Madrid (UEM), head of the Emergency Service at the HLA Universitario Moncloa and responsible for Postgraduate Training at the center.

Dr. Juan José Oñoro, head of Intensive Medicine at HLA Universitario Moncloa, remarks that “it is a great challenge to be the first department to undertake this new stage in our hospital. This great responsibility, which we assume as a team, is exciting and motivating”.

According to Dr José Ramón Vicente Rull, the centre’s managing director, adds that the MIR accreditation process “has been laborious as well as satisfying. In this way we reinforce our connection with the university and our commitment to quality training”. Since 2013, the HLA has celebrated eight promotions of students trained at its centre in the Medicine Degree by the UEM.