He repeated it in 2025 and has chosen his favorite specialty

Everyone can have a bad day. Even those who empty body and soul in order to overcome a proof or one opposition… That was the case of the doctor Mireia Miranda (Barcelona, 1999) in the examination of internal resident medical (MIR) held in January 2024. The big day came and she failure. “The night before I got so nervous that I could not sleep, so I arrived in the exam with a lot fatigue and many nerves And that affected my performance, ”explains the young woman to El Español.

Although Mireia Miranda exceeded that test, it was in position 5.561 of the MIR of 2024. A somewhat “disappointing” result for her because in the drills she did “I used to have A percentile between 70 and 90or what is the same, a result that implies stay under position 3,000 or 2,000”, Says the doctor. In spite of everything, that mid -table position served him to choose specialties such as Psychiatry, family medicine, Pediatrics o Internal medicine. “But I was passionate and thought that what I chose was going to be for a lifetime, so I had to do well,” he adds.

Before her two roads opened. Or choose a place in a specialty that did not convince or return to Face to MIR with the aspiration to improve your result. She chose the difficult way and opted to study one more year in search of a score that would allow her to do the residence in what she wants. And a year later, after much effort, the Barcelona repeated the MIR In January of 2025consolidating in the number 1.813 of the 13,691 doctors that they have approved in this last call. That is, repeating the test has caused that Mireia Miranda these Uploaded 3,748 positions in MIR.

“That has allowed me to choose Ophthalmology in Barcelonawhat I wanted most. I have a place in the Terrassa university Hospital”, Explains the young woman on the same day he has given him the yes I want To this medical specialty. Mireia Mirandain this sense, He has chosen his place on Wednesday. “It is something that was not done for four years And it is beautiful because it is a day of tribute, in which you choose your future after so much effort, accompanied by yours, and not with a cold email. In addition, it is a more transparent process, ”says the resident doctor.

An early vocation

Despite what Mireia Miranda has completed the feat of Repeat the mir In search of fulfilling his dream, the truth is that the vocation came from a very early age. “Had 12 or 13 years When they entered me little brother For a time due to a health problem that has already exceeded. I saw how pediatricians They took care of him and other patients and then I thought: ‘I also want to take care of the children,’ ”he recalls Mireia Miranda.

From there, inspired by that experience in the hospital, a Mireia Miranda teenager got to work to achieve the necessary qualifications to reach his Dream race: Medicine. “I was always quite applied and in Baccalaureate y Selectivity I obtained near a 12.5 over 14which allowed me to access the public university, ”he says. This is how the young woman’s journey began in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. A race that surpassed course per year Between 2017 and 2023.

Already in sixth race, last year, Mireia Miranda made a rotation in Buenos Aireswhile doing the Final Degree Work (TFG). Although it was already registered in the academy to prepare the MIRthe truth is that it did not get serious until the rotation and the TFGthat is, in June 2023. After achieving a 8.10 on 10 On average in the degree, the young woman wasolated from the world in search of giving the bell in the MIR of January 2024.

“Esa first time I took it badly because I wanted to study a lot and cover everything and in the end it was exhausted to the weekend. I dedicated more time to the study because I consider myself a person, like most doctors, very perfectionist. Then it did not rest, I had some anxiety for not being able to cover everything and ended up demotivated, ”says the doctor. That breeding ground ended that Mireia Miranda It remained in him MIR of 2024 In the position 5.561something “disappointing” for her.

3,748 upstream

Nonetheless, Mireia Miranda began to collaborate in Emergency in a hospital of Barcelona And, after knowing his result, he decided to stop and reflect what to do. “For me, that I was always a person with very good notes at school and at the university, not to get to my goal was like a failure. I felt at that time, but but Over time I thought that failure was a life lesson. I talked to my family and decided to study one more year. I thought: ‘What else does another year do if it is worth achieving a job that I will do all my life,’ he says Full.

With value, at the beginning of June 2024 The young woman decided Repeat the mir. He registered in an intensive course in the Academy Get your goalbetter known in the sector as CTOto prepare the following call. Mireia Miranda He says that in summer “he worked in the morning and studied in the afternoon, but without burdens” and from September He stopped collaborating in the emergency room to focus on 100 % in the MIR of 2025.

“At first I decided to study the subjects that worse were given to me, such as Neurology o Nephrologybut then I got with everything. But I did change something about the first time I studied for him MIR: I was aware that I could not cover everything and I focused on the most important. In addition, not everything was studying. From eight o’clock every day I was going to play sports and Sundays rested. I was aware that rest helped me”, Confesses the young woman.

At the day of the exam, the doctor got nervous again, but there was a root difference: “The day before I did not study much and did a lot of sport to sleep well. I went to the very rested exam And although it was more difficult than that of 2024I settled and I did well, ”he celebrates Mireia Miranda. The rest of the story was a success: its decision, to postpone your choice of square for a year and Repeat the mircaused that climb almost 4,000 positions And thanks to that bravery gesture This Wednesday has fulfilled his dream To choose what I wanted where I wanted: Ophthalmology in Barcelona. We have oftaloga.