Where family and community physicians from Brazil get their medical degree?
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Family Practice, Primary Health Care, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Schools, Medical.Abstract
Little is known about the characteristics of medical graduation in Family and Community Medicine in Brazil. Purpose: to characterize the higher education institutions (HEIs) where physicians who specialized in family and community medicine in Brazil graduated by 2018. Methods: A descriptive study based on secondary data from Lattes platform of all family physicians (FP) operating in Brazil, including information about the place and year of physician’s graduation. Results: 4,065 (65.2%) curricula of the 6,238 FPs identified were located. 3,889 (62.3%) registered the HEI in which they graduated in medicine. 3,769 (96.9%) FPs graduated from 169 Brazilian HEIs and 120 (3.1%) graduated from 48 foreign HEIs. Most FPs graduated from public HEIs (n = 2,396; 63.8%), located in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants (n = 3,446; 96.7%) and in South and Southeast regions of the country. The Southeast region concentrated the HEIs responsible for the graduation of more than 45.0% of the FPs. All states in the Northeast, Midwest and North regions of the country account for less than 4.5% of Brazil’s total FPs. Private HEIs have gained greater importance in FP graduation from 2008. Conclusion: Most FPs who obtained their specialty titles in Brazil were graduated in medicine in their own country, in public HEIs located in the large urban centers of the South and Southeast regions of the country, a pattern that resembles that of global medical education in Brazil.
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