Primary care is often perceived as the ugly duckling of the healthcare system among workers in the sector. The high workload, bureaucracy, and lack of personnel mean that many physicians rule out working in a primary care center (PCC), especially after the health crisis caused by Covid-19, which strained teams and the physical and mental health of its membersThe hangover from the pandemic has caused in recent years Hundreds of family medicine positions remain vacant and community because young people leaving university were opting for another medical specialty. However, this trend has reversed in 2025, and the vast majority of residency spots at primary care centers have been awarded, although the Department of Health has not specified how many of these young people ended up giving up their desired spot. ARA spoke with some of the faces of this generation of young people who, once again, want to be family doctors.

One of the main reasons why in recent years there has been an attempt to make university entrance exams the same – or as similar as possible – is that in the State the universities operate with the so-called "single district". The regulations allow a student to access any university in the country, regardless of the autonomous community to which the institution belongs and the place where the applicant completed high school and university entrance exams. The single district also opens the door to greater competition in certain territories that offer degrees that in other parts of the State have fewer places or that have better-rated universities. The clearest example of this dilemma in Catalonia can be seen in the degree of medicine.