[Family and Community Medicine Training Program: Theory and practice]

To improve and adapt training rotation periods following the training program (POE) of the Badajoz Family and Community Medicine (MFyC) Training Unit (UDOCBA).

Mixed qualitative (brainstorming and nominal technical group), and quantitative (cross-sectional descriptive), study in 2006 and 2007.

UDOCBA.

The participants include 50 Residents, 31 accredited tutors, a health technician and a UDOCBA coordinator, as well as 93 MFyC Teaching Units in Spain (UUDD).

A rotations working group was formed in UDOCBA, which met on two occasions to make substantial modifications to adapt the POE. The first meeting was a brainstorming session, and the second using a nominal technical group, whose results were submitted to an Advisory Committee.

Questionnaire aimed at tutors, analysis of residents self-assessment files, a questionnaire delivered to all the UUDD (via e-mail) and nominal resident groups. Descriptive and bivariate statistics on the variables using the SPSS 15 program.

The consensus of the second meeting of the UDOCBA rotations group on evaluating the results obtained with the rest of the tools used, were: to shorten the initial rotation of the C.S. to 5 months, increase the cardiology rotation to 3 months, shorten the rural rotation to 2 months and opt out of the elective 1 month stay in palliatives and radiology.

Theoretically well prepared and easily to put into practice. All the consensus results of the UDOCBA were accepted by the Advisory Committee, followed by POE directives. Homogeneity was seen in the UUDD rotations. Unanimity of initial and final rotation by the C.S., and less in rural.