Pre-graduate medical education from the perspective of Primary Health Care: the Portuguese case

Paulo Santos

doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2024.144929

eISSN: 2449-8580
ISSN: 1734-3402

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review

Current issue Archive Manuscripts accepted About the journal Editorial board Reviewers Subscription Contact Instructions for authors Publication charge Ethical standards and procedures

Editorial System

Submit your Manuscript

Open access

4/2024
vol. 26

Send email

Copy url:

Paulo Santos

¹

Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, CINTESIS@RISE – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2024; 26(4): 557–560

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2024.144929

Online publish date: 2024/12/29

Article file

- 20 FM&PCR 4 24 - Z CME - Santos - 1603 - Pre-graduate.pdf [0.29 MB]

Get citation

PlumX metrics:

1. White KL, Williams TF, Greenberg BG. The ecology of medical care. N Engl J Med 1961; 265: 885–892.

2. Starfield B. Primary care: balancing health needs, services, and technology. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998.

3. Engel GL. The clinical application of the biopsychosocial model. J Med Philos 1981; 6(2): 101–123.

4. Balint M. The doctor, his patient and the illness. 2nd ed. London: Pitman Paperbacks; 1968.

5. Santos P, Santiago L, Hespanhol A. Medicina Geral e Familiar. Coimbra: Almedina; 2021 (in Portuguese).

6. World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Primary health care: report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6–12 September 1978. Available from URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241800011.

7. Buja LM. Medical education today: all that glitters is not gold. BMC Med Educ 2019; 19(1): 110.

8. Anderson LW, Krathwohl DR, Airasian PW, et al. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.; 2001.

9. Frenk J, Chen L, Bhutta ZA, et al. Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world. Lancet 2010; 376(9756): 1923–1958.

10. Kundu S. How will artificial intelligence change medical training? Commun Med (Lond) 2021; 1: 8.

11. Densen P. Challenges and opportunities facing medical education. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 2011; 122: 48–58.

12. Han ER, Yeo S, Kim MJ, et al. Medical education trends for future physicians in the era of advanced technology and artificial intelligence: an integrative review. BMC Med Educ 2019; 19(1): 460.

13. Pope L, Dubras L. Delivering medical education for future healthcare needs: a community-focused challenge. Educ Prim Care 2020; 31(5): 266–269.

14. Santos P, Alves L, Simoes JA. What distinguishes a competent doctor in medical education? Int J Med Educ 2017; 8: 270–272.

15. Ferreira MA. Medical Education for the XXI Century: The Challenge to Integrate Technology and Humanities: Educação Médica no Século XXI: O Desafio da Integração da Tecnologia e Humanidades. Gaz Méd 2017; 3(4): 156–161.

16. Dornan T, Littlewood S, Margolis SA, et al. V. How can experience in clinical and community settings contribute to early medical education? A BEME systematic review. Medical Teacher 2009; 28(1): 3–18.

17. Hampshire AJ. Providing early clinical experience in primary care. Med Educ 1998; 32(5): 495–501.

18. Silva CF, Beirão D, Santos P. 40 anos de desenvolvimento dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários em Portugal. In: Missias-Moreira R, Mesquita CC, eds. International Handbook for the Advancement of Public Health Policies – Health Policy, Planning and Management. Vol. 1. Porto: Publicações ESS; 2021: 30–48 (in Portuguese).

19. Boon V, Ridd M, Blythe A. Medical undergraduate primary care teaching across the UK: what is being taught? Educ Prim Care 2017; 28(1): 23–28.

20. Lam TP, Lam YY. Medical education reform: the Asian experience. Acad Med 2009; 84(9): 1313–1317.

21. Widyandana D, Majoor GD, Scherpbier AJ. Effects of partial substitution of pre-clinical skills training by attachments to primary health care centers: an experimental study. Med Teach 2011; 33(6): e313–e317.

22. Rockey NG, Weiskittel TM, Linder KE, et al. A mixed methods study to evaluate the impact of a student-run clinic on undergraduate medical education. BMC Med Educ 2021; 21(1): 182.

Copyright: © 2024 Family Medicine & Primary Care Review. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

Pre-graduate medical education from the perspective of Primary Health Care: the Portuguese case

Paulo Santos 1

Paulo Santos

¹