Postgraduate education among family and community physicians in Brazil: the Trajetorias MFC project.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our objective was to describe the postgraduate education trajectories of family and community physicians in Brazil, where neither primary healthcare nor family and community medicine is recognised as a knowledge area for the purpose of research and postgraduate education (master's and PhD degrees).

Design

An observational, exploratory study, using administrative data. A nationwide list of family and community physicians as of late November 2018 was compiled from multiple sources. Data on the mode of specialisation was obtained from the same sources and were correlated with data on master's and PhD degrees, obtained from the curricula vitae on the Lattes Platform.

Setting

This study was set in Brazil.

Participants

6238 family and community physicians (

SUBMITTER: Fontenelle LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493087 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature