Linked Positions University of Murcia and SMS 2026: requirements and access

Key data

Health professionals with academic vocation in the Region of Murcia have a concrete opportunity: the Joint Resolution of 8 May 2026 of the University of Murcia and the Murcian Health Service convenes a competition for access to linked positions of university teaching bodies. These positions are not ordinary posts: whoever holds them exercises simultaneously as a university professor and as a health professional in the Murcian public health system.

This linked position model is the usual mechanism for integrating university education with real clinical practice, especially in qualifications such as Medicine or Nursing. The call was published in the BOE on 22 May 2026.

What does this regulation establish?

The resolution convenes a competition for access—not an ordinary competitive examination—to linked positions of university teaching bodies. The term linked position has a precise technical meaning: it is a position that formally unites teaching activity at the university with care activity in a public health center.

The key elements established by the call are as follows:

• Nature of positions: they combine university teaching activity and health care activity simultaneously and inseparably.
• Convening bodies: University of Murcia and Murcian Health Service, acting jointly.
• Typical areas: Medicine and Nursing, as these are the disciplines where this position model has the greatest tradition and application.
• Dual regulatory framework: the process is governed by both university regulations and applicable health regulations, which means that candidates must meet requirements in both areas.
• Territorial scope: Region of Murcia.

The competition for access is the legally established procedure for filling positions in university teaching bodies. It involves the evaluation of merits and, where appropriate, defense before an evaluation committee.

Economic and operational impact

For selected candidates, holding a linked position means double remuneration: that corresponding to the university teaching body and that derived from care activity in the Murcian Health Service. The call does not detail specific remuneration amounts, which are governed by the salary tables of each convening body.

From an operational point of view, the implications are significant:

• The holder of the position is simultaneously linked to two public institutions with their respective incompatibility regimes, on-call duties, teaching and evaluation.
• Dual institutional dependence (university and health service) implies obligations and rights in both areas.
• The competition for access process requires preparing documentation and merits that satisfy both university academic criteria and health criteria.

For the convening institutions, this model makes it possible to ensure that teachers of clinical disciplines maintain direct contact with care practice, which has an impact on the quality of university education in health sciences.

Who does it affect?

• Doctors and health professionals with university qualifications who wish to access the university teaching career in Murcia.
• University professors in clinical areas (Medicine, Nursing) who wish to consolidate their link with the Murcian public health system.
• Researchers and clinicians with sufficient academic merits to compete for positions in university teaching bodies.
• Professionals in specialized training who project their careers towards university teaching combined with health care in the Region of Murcia.

Practical example

A specialist doctor in Internal Medicine who works in a hospital of the Murcian Health Service and who has accumulated teaching and research merits (publications, directed theses, teaching in undergraduate programs) can apply for this competition for access. If selected, he or she will hold a linked position that formally recognizes his or her dual role: he or she will continue to work in the hospital as a health professional and, at the same time, will be assigned to the University of Murcia as a member of a university teaching body with all the obligations and rights that this entails (regulated teaching, academic evaluation, possibility of directing doctoral theses, etc.).

This profile is especially relevant in specialties such as Family Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics or Nursing, where practical training of university students takes place in real clinical settings.

What should candidates do now?

1. Consult the official call in the BOE to find out the exact number of positions, the areas convened, the deadlines for submitting applications and the specific requirements demanded.
2. Verify simultaneous compliance with academic and health requirements, since both regulatory frameworks are applicable and the lack of either of them may result in exclusion from the process.
3. Prepare the merit file adapted to the evaluation criteria of the university competition for access: teaching history, research and, where appropriate, care.
4. Review the incompatibility regulations applicable to those who simultaneously hold a position at the public university and in the regional health service.
5. Contact the personnel services of the University of Murcia and the Murcian Health Service to resolve doubts about the process and deadlines before the application period expires.