La Chair UPF-SEMG-Grünenthal promotes exchange of doctors of AP that are aware of the health system British.
– has opened the registration period for candidates to the second call for this initiative coordinated by the UPF-SEMG-Grünenthal Chair of health economy and family medicine in collaboration with Spandoc Exchange. These scholarships are open to professionals for the first level of care and are aimed at that participants are aware of how it manages and operates primary care at United Kingdom and at the same time, to make known the Spanish model to other countries trying to apply those experiences that involve an innovation for our health care system. The deadline for submission of applications for this new round ends on 11 September; two doctors who are elected to perform the Exchange will travel during the first half of 2012
Spain, 2011-July since just over one year ago created the Chair, it has carried out a large number of activities designed to promote family medicine and the training of its professionals. One of the most ambitious initiatives that we have put in place is the clinical Exchange with the National Health Service (NHS), the British equivalent of our national health system ”, explains Dr. Francisco Hernansanz churches, Deputy Director of the UPF-SEMG-Grünenthal Chair of health economy and family medicine. Doctors in primary care (AP) are participating in this program have a unique opportunity to delve into the characteristics of the British health system, enrich your practice noting the assistance in other environments, and share ideas with other colleagues. At the same time, the program allows them to improve their level of professional English ”, continues the optional.
Dr. Hernansanz indicates that choosing United Kingdom as a country of Exchange is not accidental: the British health system has always been a point of reference for our and, in addition, both have many similarities. These points in common between the two systems contribute to many of the things learned in United Kingdom applicable in our country, and vice versa ”, indicates the Deputy Director of the UPF-SEMG-Grünenthal Chair.
In order to meet and study in situ the British model of health, the Exchange designed by UPF-SEMG-Grünenthal Chair and Spandoc Exchange materializes in stays of observation for two weeks in London primary care health centers. Elected physicians, two for the year, participating as observers in nursing and family medicine consultations as well as activities of management, administration and in meetings of several British health centers team ”, explains Dr. Hernansanz, which it describes as the first carried out experience, which these days is taking stock, as very satisfactory ”.
Open a new period of enrollment
The second call of this Exchange program is already underway: registration has opened for the application for participation, which may be carried out on 11 September.
The requirements demanded to all those who want to access the selection process are: possess at least a level similar to First Certificate English Español – in order to ensure the maximum utilization of the stay in each of the segments of the health center candidates must pass a test of English attesting their level –, and be a doctor in primary care, on the welfare side as the direction of team. Also, candidates must also have a proposal for improvement in the health centre where develop its welfare work or managing the return of your stay.
Applicants to the Exchange to meet the requirements should send a curriculum vitae in English and a letter of presentation, also in English, explaining the reasons that lead to want to make this Exchange as well as its goals and intentions of application of the experience.
The complete bases of the call can be found in the web site of the Chair .
Chair UPF – SEMG – Grünenthal of medicine, health economics and family
La Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF), the Spanish society of General physicians and family (SEMG) and Grünenthal Pharma, signed in May 2010 an agreement of collaboration for the creation of the UPF Chair – SEMG – Grünenthal of family and Economà medicine(a) of the health. It is a joint initiative of three institutions that promotes the formation of the health professional on matters of economy and health management, improvement of the clinical competence of the general practitioner and family, the empowerment of multilingualism in the health sector, as well as pre-professional practices supervised in primary care centres.
This Chair is directed by Professor Vicente Ortún Rubio, director of the Center for research in economics and health (CRES) and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and business at the University Pompeu Fabra, and Dr. Francisco Hernansanz Iglesias, general practitioner and family, as Assistant Director.
