Pablo G. Blasco, MD, PhD Adriana FT. Roncoletta, MD Deborah S. Garcia,MD Marco Aurelio Janaudis, MD Maria Auxiliadora C. De Benedetto, MD Pablo G. Blasco, MD, PhD Adriana FT. Roncoletta, MD Deborah S. Garcia,MD Marco Aurelio Janaudis, MD Maria Auxiliadora C. De Benedetto, MD Brazilian Society of Family Medicine Marcelo R. Levites, MD Elvis P. Fernandes, Eng. – IT Director. Marcelo R. Levites, MD Elvis P. Fernandes, Eng. – IT Director.

 Academic Society founded in 1992, Brazil, by doctors trained as specialists but practing general medicine, along with a few university faculty  To promote family medicine core values.  Few doctors, most of whom have been involved in Family Medicine since their first years in the medical schools.  MANY students who are involved in an ongoing process.

 Real Leaders in their own medical schools  Powerful resource to strengthen the core values of family medicine, as students realize they need these values to become better doctors.  Family medicine provides students with tools to improve doctoring and for working with patients.

 In Brazil, there are virtually no family medicine departments in medical schools.  Even when students are exposed to subjects related to primary care or family practice in their medical training there is no emphasis on the academic component of the discipline.

 How do you begin a discipline where it does not yet exist?  Strategies on many levels.  One area that seems of critical importance is student interest.  Students can have a strong voice in their education.

 For more than eighteen years ( ) SOBRAMFA- Brazilian Society of Family Medicine has spread the family medicine philosophy among medical students through congresses, academic meetings, family medicine seminars, international meetings set in Brazil, and Continuous Medical Education Courses.

 This students´ interest is a powerful resource to strengthen the core values of family medicine, as students realize they need these values to become better doctors.  Besides seeing family medicine as their future specialty choice, family medicine provides students with tools to improve doctoring and for dealing with patients.

 SOBRAMFA Board composed mostly of young family doctors, who were students involved in SOBRAMFA informal training from their first years in medical schools.  New graduated doctors looking for specific training in SOBRAMFA: The FITNESS Program.  Need to formal document and evaluate the family medicine learning activites completed by those students who decide to apply for the Fitness Program -- Family Medicine Miles Program

 The students get “miles” in family medicine through their involvement in meetings, family medicine interest groups ( ligas), seeing patients in family medicine settings, giving lectures to their peers, and performing tag-alongs with SOBRAMFA family doctors.  The Family Medicine Miles Program is managed by SOBRAMFA web site, and students can find their own performance, as well as specific guides for improving their training.

Objective:  Because SOBRAMFA offers a variety of family medicine learning opportunities for medical students coming from several Medical Schools…..  In order to provide an “official appraisal” for all students involved  SOBRAMFA runs the Miles Program to measure the students´ participation, and reward it with grades, here called “miles”. Informal student training Official student appraisal

 Theory Miles: FM Theory and Methodology  Monthly Meeting in APM (Medical Association)  SOBRAMFA Annual Meeting.  Practicing Miles  MF2 – Family Medicine Mini Fellowship.  Academic Miles:  Students Presenting Papers in Meetings (National and International)  Research, publishing,.

 To allow an individual assessment of each student  To provide balance between theory and practice.  To provide tutorial guides.  To promote leadership among the students.  To foster students´ interest in family medicine.  To encourage those who will be able to apply for the residency program being developed by SOBRAMFA (FITNESS Program)  To integrate both the training program to be a future family doctor and their entry in faculty development programs.

 Brazilian Society of Family Medicine  Academic institution founded in São Paulo  Main Objective: scientific, academic and methodological development of Family Medicine  Brazilian Society of Family Medicine  Academic institution founded in São Paulo  Main Objective: scientific, academic and methodological development of Family Medicine SOBRAMFAwww.sobramfa.com.br

Continued Medical Education and Discipline Development For students: -Family Medicine Miles -MF-2 fellowship Medical Residency: Fitness Program Specialization -Senior Fitness -International Fitness -Professional Fitness (MBA)

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The IT ifrastructure gives SOBRAMFA’s teachers time to deal with student’s development, without to worry about how to register all miles and MANAGE them INDIVIDUALLY.

 Monthly report by mail  Suggestions for action for each student based on:  Individual development  Comparison between other students (AI)

 Continuous Medical Educational Program to guide Students´ learning process  Advise them with personal tutorial guides for improving their knowledge in Family Medicine in a non-official curriculum.  Point out how a real model of family doctor´s daily work can inspire students for pursuing excellence in doctoring and perhaps to choose it as their future specialty

Academic family medicine in Brazil GP-Miles: The Brazilian approach to make medical students enthusiastic for family medicine. A continuity of a learning process - one answer for the medical educational complexity model.

Elvis Fernandes – Marcelo Levites – Pablo González Blasco – SOBRAMFA – Brazilian Society of Family Medicine