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Find out about the training plan for residents and the MIR, EIR, BIR and FIR specialties at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Get to know us and work with us.
The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital is a university hospital affiliated with the Universitat de Barcelona. We are a tertiary centre dedicated exclusively to maternal and child healthcare. Our Hospital can boast the highest level of specialisation and complexity and we are able to provide the ideal conditions for delivering all aspects of training related to Paediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Hospital Pharmacy and Clinical Biochemistry.
Our centre is accredited for Specialised Healthcare Training (FSE) in Paediatrics and Specific Areas, Paediatric Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (MIR); Hospital Pharmacy (FIR); Paediatric and Obstetrics/Gynaecology Nursing (EIR), and Clinical Biochemistry (BIR).
We also collaborate with Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu in the training of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry residents (MIR). In this training, four of the five years of residency are carried out in our Hospital, in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centres (CSMIJ) and in the Acompanya'm Unit.
Since 1986, SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital has had accreditation to teach MIR Internal Medical Residency Program, the medical residency programme for new doctors, and since 2012, accreditation to run the Resident nurse (EIR), a residency programme for qualified nurses. We currently have 139 residents of the different specialities and 34 tutors.
Teaching at our Hospital is essentially based around the following pillars:
- Training of the resident in diagnostic and technical skills, through experience working with patients organised into a rotation programme. The supervised activity is reinforced with clinical case sessions, courses, specific workshops and theoretical methods.
- Acquisition of communication skills through specific training in doctor-patient communication and preparation of scientific publication sessions in the hospital.
- Consolidation of the ethical principles of the profession and the humanistic and scientific values that characterise our centre.
- Basic training in clinical and experimental research. We encourage our residents to attend congresses and to participate in scientific publications.
- Tutor-supported learning. Fulfilling the teaching objectives is helped by the support and monitoring provided by the tutor in the specialist area, reinforced by the head of each department with the supervision and support of the Teaching Committee.
- Simulation program to train teamwork SIM4R. Program developed specifically for residents in which the main axes of teamwork can be trained throughout the years of training.
Reasons to do your residency at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital
Residents gain highly specialised training thanks to the volume and complexity of our patients.
We train residents to work in a multidisciplinary environment, to provide comprehensive care to the patient based on humanism and science.
The teaching programme incorporates the most innovative techniques and facilities in simulation methods.
Safety is a priority. The 360º program aims to care for the professional in a comprehensive manner.
Get to know SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital
Our hospital has the best facilities and technology to serve pediatric patients and women. Visit, through explanatory videos, the new operating rooms are like and how they work.
Available places and training itineraries (in Spanish)
"It is important to fulfil the curriculum offered by promoting research and training without limits, but it is also essential to listen to the residents and work for their needs"
"In the obstetric field, the hospital offers us comprehensive and quality training, which allows us to acquire solid experience that prepares us to face the challenges of the speciality with confidence"
"I chose paediatrics because it allows you to experience very special moments with children and their families and it is very interesting to enjoy this contact"
"As SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is a third level hospital, the care for women is both high and low risk, and this means that we acquire knowledge that we could not have elsewhere"
"Residents at the Hospital also do research. They offer us specific classes and encourage and help us to write our own articles and posters"
"The possibility of doing external rotations, attending congresses, taking training courses or doing my PhD at the centre made me choose SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital"
"I chose SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital because every corner is designed for children, it has powerful and specific services and because they are committed to research"
"This hospital is big enough to deal with complex cases, but also with general paediatric cases. This combination allows us to recieve a very complete training"
Teaching Committee
The Teaching Committee is regulated by Royal Decree 127/84 and its function is to organise the resident training and supervise its practical application, while ensuring the programme objectives for the different specialist areas are met and establishing a committee for the assessment of each of the residents in training.
The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital Teaching Committee is also responsible for continuous training sessions. The Committee is chaired by the Head of Studies and is made up of tutors and representatives of the residents in training. There is one representative from each intake of residents on the Committee.