“daily clinical practice and the rational use of drugs”, a training project in primary health care that exceeds expectations

in the 5th Edition the most requested training has been the use of drugs in the urgent care to children

Barcelona, July 2011- “daily clinical practice and the rational administration of drugs” is a scheme of continuous training in rational drug use, result of a collaboration between the Department of health of the Generalitat and the Catalan society of family medicine and community (CAMFiC), and this year celebrates its fifth edition.

The Plan has carried out 532 (1407 hours training) session and has trained 5.685 doctors, 3.257 nurses and 557 pharmaceutical products throughout the territory Catalan.

In this edition have received a total of 268 requests for training sessions: 197 in the province of Barcelona, 23 in Lleida, 41 in Tarragona and different 7 in Girona, in a total of 105 CAPs (primary health care centres). Access to requests for session has been closed definitively to the edition of this year 2011, given the great demand obtained.

The Plan aims training decentralized in the farmacoterapéutica area, offering joint session at the health professionals involved in the prescription, dispensing and advice on drugs to citizens, and without any cost to the student. These sessions include skills, updating of knowledge, access to new scientific evidence, training and carried out with digital and audiovisual media in most of the session.

The most sought-after topics in this edition have been: urgent care to children, the elderly, arrhythmias, dementia, eritematodescamativas injury, antibiotics and cancer pain and not cancer.

Participation by offices of pharmacy pharmaceutical

As of mid-May, had already made 75 sessions, which have assisted a total of 1673 professionals (1570 doctors and nurses of PA and 103 offices of pharmacy pharmaceutical), 96 sessions are scheduled and the rest of petitions will be programming throughout the year, according to criteria of province, number of sessions received by EAP and availability of teachers.

The organization hopes have largely failed to satisfy the need for training of the different teams of primary care (EAPs), and you want to be able to resume the project in 2012 with new issues of therapeutic update.

More information and poster of the Plan:

http://www.camfic.cat/CAMFiC/Seccions/Formacio/Arxius/Practica_Clinica_Diaria.aspx