Propuesta de un modelo de integración de la Atención Primaria en el grado de Medicina de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona basado en la mentoría de estudiantes

Family and community medicine brings together many of the elements and values that characterize the medical practice. This means that it can provide solid, useful and lasting foundations to the medical student, whatever specialty they choose in the future. It is necessary to train professionals capable of seeing the patient from a holistic point of view in their personal and social context, as well as understanding the determining factors of individual and community health. And also understanding the patient and their suffering, and that they empathize, to accompany them during their illness process. We are also faced with the challenge of placing Primary Care at the center of the health system and facing a growing demand for doctors specializing in Family and Community Medicine.

To achieve these objectives, it is strictly necessary to integrate Primary Care into the university curricula, with the intervention of family doctors in different subjects, providing a more transversal and holistic vision in the approach to different pathologies and with more presence in teaching activities and practices.

The model proposed by the Pompeu Fabra University is inspired by the mentoring methodology in which the student will be assigned a family doctor as a mentor throughout their undergraduate training, and this will accompany them during their stays at the Primary Care center and in activities related to different subjects and will ensure compliance with the training objectives. They will also participate in evaluation at the end of each course. This model aims to improve the quality of activities linked to clinical care and practices, and will facilitate knowledge of Primary Care and the profession of physician with an early and maintained contact with Primary Care.