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Unidades de Cuidados Saúde Primários Universitárias

Academic Primary Care Units: From Dream to Reality

Academic Primary Care Units: From Dream to Reality

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Competencies Addressed During Undergraduate Medical Education: Perceptions of F...

Introduction: Medical education must adapt to society’s needs, ensuring that the skills acquired by students align with those perceived as necessary for high-quality medical practice. The aim of this study was to assess the perceptions of medical trainees who graduated from University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Medicine between 2020/21 and 2022/23, currently working as foundation year or specialty trainee doctors,...

Eating Habits of People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Portugal: A Cross-Sect...

Introduction: Nutrition is a cornerstone of diabetes mellitus prevention and management; therefore, it is essential to enable patients to adopt healthy eating habits. Previous studies have not yet documented the main errors in the eating habits of Portuguese people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study aims to identify the main errors in the eating habits of people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Po...

Knowledge, opinions and experiences of nurses and nursing students in Portugal ...

Background The opening up of the laws to medicinal cannabis in recent years is a key factor in the growth of this therapy, but there is little information about what nurses know and think about it. The present paper seeks to analyze the knowledge, opinions, and experiences of nurses and nursing students in Portugal regarding the use of cannabis and to understand gender differences. Methods A self-completion que...

O Um novo futuro para a medicina geral e familiar em Portugal

O Livro Azul: um futuro para a Medicina de Família em Portugal, editado em 1990 pela Associação Portuguesa de Médicos de Clínica Geral, marcou os anos seguintes e conceptualizou a Reforma dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários, iniciada em 2005, mas não implementada na totalidade. No momento atual de insatisfação profissional é importante rever os princípios que nortearão a medicina geral e familiar no futuro. O médic...

Luiz Miguel Santiago: a person-centred life, practice and science

A New Future for Family Medicine/General Practice in Portugal

The ‘Blue Book’: a Future for Family Medicine in Portugal, edited in 1990 by the Portuguese Association of General Practice and Family Medicine, influenced the subsequent years and built the foundation for the Primary Healthcare Reform, initiated in 2005, but not fully implemented. In the current moment of low professional satisfaction, reviewing the principles that should guide family medicine in the future is...

Palliative Care Needs in Primary Health Care: Characteristics of Patients with ...

Introduction: The increase in life expectancy brought a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, with an emphasis on those who reached advanced stages and required palliative care. We aimed to characterize patients diagnosed with advanced neoplasms and/or dementia accompanied in primary health care and to test the sensitivity of two tools for identifying patients with palliative needs.Methods: We recruited three ...