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Representatives of universities that maintain an agreement with the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) for the formation admission post bac of posgradistas in family and community medicine met with various authorities that Ministry guidelines to improve this preparation process. The meeting was held at the offices of the Ministry in Quito, Thursday 24 April.
By the Ministry of Health were Marysol admission post bac Ruilova, Deputy Minister of Comprehensive Health Care; David Acurio, admission post bac Deputy Minister of Governance and Health Surveillance; Patricia Farm, national secretary of Health Service admission post bac Provision.
For institutions of higher education attended by delegates from the University of Cuenca, Loja National University, Universidad del Azuay, Chimborazo Polytechnic (ESPOCH), Technical University of Ambato, Ecuador Central University, Catholic University (DSpace) and University Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, who reported the first experiences of implementing the program.
As part of the National Postgraduate Family and Community Medicine, in January this year, 520 health professionals began their training process, which will last three years. Until 2017 it plans to have 5,203 doctors admission post bac in this specialty.
Edgar Leon, a consultant to the National Standardization Human Resource in Health, explained that this specialty is considered as the main strategy for improving primary health care, and that she works out to 80% of diseases in the first level care (health admission post bac centers), ie the nearest patient service.
"This implies admission post bac that there is a lower risk of complications, expense mobilization, and the doctor being formed, as a specialist, can attend a community in the same territory, understanding admission post bac the problems," he said.
Leon explained that the training of professionals in postgraduate family medicine is characterized in that the university sends guardians to the territory where the professional works, admission post bac unlike the classic graduate in that form it goes to universities and health units.
Rodrigo Diaz, family physician and coordinator of postgraduate family medicine at the Catholic University of Quito, said that this event also allowed to work on strengthening the Health Care Teaching Units, which is the place where students enrolled in the graduate health units the first level.
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