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SOBRAMFA has promoted family medicine education in Brazil since 1992
Author(s) -
Blasco Pablo González,
Roncoletta Adriana F T,
Moreto Graziela,
Benedetto Maria A C de,
Levites Marcelo,
Janaudis Marco A
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02929.x
Subject(s) - excellence , family medicine , medicine , medical education , teamwork , nursing , management , political science , law , economics
Editor ) Family medicine is not taught in Brazilian medical schools and family medicine faculty staff are absent in academic settings. Inspired by other countries associations of family medicine teachers, SOBRAMFA, the Brazilian Society for Family Medicine, was founded in 1992 as the first such society in Brazil to establish the basis and scientific method for family medicine, spreading its philosophy among medical students, residents and doctors.