Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Madrid (CUD-ACD)nuevo paradigma de la formación del médico-militar

Abstract

It is evident that with the appearance of the University Center of Defense (CUD) has opened a different and modern model in the training of new medical officers who must safeguard the future of the Military Health. The CUD is a teaching center belonging to the Ministry of Defense that exercises its control from the General Directorate of Recruitment and Military Education (DIGEREM), which is attached to the University of Alcala and which aims to train students in the Degree in Medicine at the same time that they carry out their military training under the regime of the Central Academy of Defense (ACD). The form of access to this training is through the annual offer of public employment. There are two forms of access: Direct access (applicants coming from the Baccalaureate) and Access by internal promotion, focused on the income for change of military corps (candidates who already belong to the Armed Forces through the Armies and the Navy) and for change of military scale (aspirants who come from the scale of military nursing). As a Public Employment Offer that is, the direct access is made through an open competition in which the contest phase is the university entrance exams and the exam consists of an English test, a physical test and a psycho-technical test and a medical examination. The curriculum for the Degree in Medicine is approved for the University of Alcalá (UAH) and the teaching staff that teaches in the CUD, is the same as it does in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UAH. The number of students admitted during these six courses of the CUD-ACD has ranged between 20 and 30 depending on the promotion and the minimum qualification of income has ranged between 11.73 and 12.69. The ratio between the number of men and women entering the CUD, has been 40% for women and 60% for men, except in this last year, in which, for the first time, the income of women has exceeded of men (16/14 respectively). The academic performance has been very satisfactory during these years, obtaining average grades per course that range between 7.04 and 7.81 and a passing percentage in each course of approximately 90%. We can conclude that the creation of the CUD-ACD has revolutionized the training of military doctors and that the results obtained validate this new model.