From the basics of training in this specialty, entrants to the Residence of General and Family Medicine (MGyF) are aware of the tremendous footprint that their work will generate in society. It is not just about office care, the essence of FGM is outpatient care but taking the patient as a multifactorial case. That is, the physician, for the generalist, is only one aspect of the care he will provide to the patient.
It is said that the family doctor generates skills for listening in the office, regardless of age or gender, which “advances” from the individual, the family and the community, in addition to the educational, preventive, curative aspects. and rehabilitation.
For the doctor Laura Conti, instructor of the MGyF Residence of the René Favaloro Training Center, “general and family medicine is a super complete specialty, for all those who like medicine in its entirety. It has a not at all, it is a very wide field of knowledge and very challenging. “
The professional explained that “the specialty is outpatient, with a different pace to hospital medicine, there are many things that are learned academically and that are expanded in knowledge in practice.”
Regarding the degree of knowledge, per year, that they complete in the Residence, Dr. Conti detailed that “the family medicine residence consists of 4 years. In the first year there are several rotations, either clinical in hospitals as in health centers. It’s about gaining various skills that we family doctors need to have some surgical skills for minor surgeries. There is a rotation for surgery and then for health centers across the province. “
“In the second year we emphasize women’s health care skills. That is, residents do rotations for gynecology, obstetrics and complemented by the work that are the Primary Care Centers.” For the third year, the family doctor explained that “there are already some clinical rotations aimed at offices which is our strong point. We specialize in outpatient medicine and we do rotations for other specialties such as cardiology, endocrinology, ophthalmology, almost all clinical specialties .
In the fourth year, there is a lot of action in the permanent movement in Primary Care Centers, especially in the management of health centers.
In addition to these rotations tomorrow, residents are having a marked academic activity on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. These are classes of updates, clinical history reviews, registration of patients with pathologies that need consultations, etc.
The professionals who belong to this residence are also on duty at the Emergency Service of the René Favaloro Training Center (CARF).
In Sant Joan it should also be noted that this specialty has a lot of boom and preponderance, to the point of having references in executive and managerial positions of health centers. In fact, and it is an issue that the province proudly exhibits, the current head of the provincial health portfolio, Dr. Alejandra Venerando was the first head of the general and family medicine service that existed in San Juan and the country.
A detail that professionals who practice this specialty point to as a motto and is not having schedules for care. The priority is the patient, in its entirety. He is a doctor, a psychologist, a friend and even a counselor.
For the family doctor what counts is not only the number of hours they spend at work, but the quality of work they perform during those hours.