The Ministry of Health, through the Secretariat of Primary Care, participated extensively in the XVII Brazilian Congress of Family and Community Medicine (CBMFC), both in the general program and in its special pavilion aimed at guiding students, health professionals and municipal managers. The space also included lectures, workshops, and dialogue sessions on topics of interest to primary health care workers.
Some of the aspects highlighted by the speakers, in the context of technology and innovation, comprehensive care at different life stages, social determinants, multidisciplinary teams etc., can be seen in magazine.
This event took place between 20 and 23 September in Fortaleza (CE), and is linked to the moment that primary care experienced in the resumption of Mais Médicos, this year, as the program completed 10 years. The Ministry of Health reformulated the program with the National Strategy for Specialized Training for the Unified Health System (SUS). The new Mais Médicos offers specialization and master’s degrees for professionals, and with the extension to four years, doctors will be able to pass the title exam and become specialists in family and community medicine.
“The vast majority of family and community medicine doctors and students who are here are young people. We are betting on the youth. The Ministry of Health is betting on the new generations of doctors in Brazil to be able to save the best medicines and strengthen the public, comprehensive and free health care system,” said the Minister of Primary Health Care. (PHC), Nicio Fernandez, “We have put, in what we have learned from those who came before us, a lot of courage and acumen.”
Savings programs
During each day, the 17th CBMFC also had space to assist with the Department of Health’s provision programs, Mais Médicos para o Brasil and Médicos pelo Brasil. Municipal directors, program doctors or recent graduates and medical students were able to clarify doubts and request information about the activities of doctors in the municipalities, compensation, new notifications, membership, professional reappointment and academic training.
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The Saps space at the event provided members of Congress with an e-SUS room, which offered workshops and activities with the aim of answering questions from family and community physicians through the digitization and computerization of primary health care. The aim of the measure was to expand the ability of these professionals to use the system and multiply the activities that can be performed through the electronic medical record. “It was also a time to showcase the new features of version 5.2 of the system, such as care sharing, electronic prescriptions and access assurance management, as well as an opportunity to announce the vocational qualification course, Educa APS,” says the person involved. By e-SUS In overall project coordination at Saps, Igor Gomez.
Also according to Igor, “The feedback has been positive and will contribute to expanding the strategy. We had significant participation from clinicians who sought information about the system, raising concerns about the use of medical records by family health teams, as well as many suggestions on how to improve it. Some of these suggestions are already in our development plan, eSUS APS +10, with the next 10 years of strategy.
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