Ten University graduates win one of the 309 places offered in the examination spanish pharmacy residency program

Ten graduates in Pharmacy from the University of Navarra have obtained one of the 309 places that the Ministry of Health has offered this year in the Internal Resident Pharmacist exam (spanish pharmacy residency program ). In addition, three of them are among the first 100 places. They are the Navarrese Iñigo Artieda, a native of Zizur Mayor, with issue 79, Naike Velilla, from Undiano, in 86th place, and Iranzu Elcano, from Miranda de Arga, who has reached 100th place. They are followed on the list by Leticia Altaduna (123rd), Beatriz Tajadura (142nd), Julia Lapeña (191st), Javier Idiazabal (236th), Manuel Rouco (240th), Leyre Ruiz (281st) and Leyre Echegoyen (305th). In this edition, a total of 1,599 candidates took the exam.

In the case of Iñigo Artieda, he confesses that he has not had a vocation for spanish pharmacy residency program from the beginning. "After finishing the Degree I started working in the industry, but after a year I saw that it was not my thing. I talked to some colleagues who were in the hospital, they told me what their day-to-day life was like and that caught my attention. In addition, during the internship I did at the end of my fifth year, I discovered that I also liked the hospital environment".

About the exam, Naike Velilla describes it as "different from other years, heavier, very long". "I finished the double Degree in Pharmacy and Human Nutrition and Dietetics in January last year, but for a few years I had been quite clear that I wanted to do the spanish pharmacy residency program ". In her case, she has not decided which specialization program she will opt for, although she is sure that she will choose between Clinical Analysis or Microbiology. For that, she assures that there are two people who have marked her in her passage through the classrooms: "Professors Nerea Varo and Gabriel Reina and their subject of "Clinical Analysis" have motivated me to choose these specialties".

For Iranzu Elcano, the last few months have been a path of great sacrifice and effort, but "it has certainly been worth it". "Since the second year of degree program I realized that I really liked the more clinical subjects: physiopathology, pharmacology, microbiology, Biochemistry clinical and clinical pharmacy were undoubtedly the ones that helped me to opt for the spanish pharmacy residency program ", she explains. "I'm still not entirely sure about specialization program but I'm sure it will be hospital pharmacy or microbiology. Now I have to go to the open doors of the hospitals and finish clarifying my ideas".