The activities will be developed in the Local Development Center and four workshops will be held to acquire practical skills, two thematic tables on the Revitalization of Primary Care and Family Medicine at the University, and two tables of medical update on the use of new anticoagulants and how to work safely with patients.
In addition, a set of activities aimed at patients has been scheduled on Saturday, November 11 at 12 noon.
The Councilor for Health of the City of Lorca, Maria del Carmen Ruiz, and representatives of the Murcia Society of Family and Community Doctors have presented this morning the activities to be carried out in the city during November 10 and 11 with motive of the realization of the XX Regional Congress of SMUMFYC, whose edition of this year has been organized by the family doctors of Area III of Health.
María del Carmen Ruiz pointed out that "the activities proposed for this regional congress, which has the motto" Overcoming barriers "and in which the City Council of Lorca collaborates, will be carried out at the Local Development Center. November are aimed at medical professionals and four workshops will be developed to acquire practical skills, two thematic tables on the Revitalization of Primary Care and Family Medicine at the University, and two tables of medical update on the use of new anticoagulants and how to work safely with patients. "
The Councilor for Health explained that "a total of 27 speakers will participate and 50 scientific papers from family doctors of the Region have been accepted and will be presented in different formats." It should be noted that for the development of the thematic table on Primary Care it will be counted with the participation of Dr. Asensio López Santiago, Family Physician and Manager of the Murcian Health Service, Dr. Don Armando Santo González, Family Doctor and Regional Vice President of SEMERGEN, and Dr. José Ramón Salvador Pozo, Family Doctor in the Rafael Méndez Hospital. "
Ruiz added that "the table on the University, in addition to the presence of Dr. Juan Francisco Menarguez Puche, Family Physician and Associate Professor and Coordinator of the MFyC Rotary of the Faculty of Medicine of Murcia, who will moderate the Dr. Antoni Plana Blanco, Family Physician and Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lleida and Dr. Verónica Casado Vicente, Family Physician, Associate Professor and Head of the Teaching Unit of MFyC of the Faculty of Medicine of Valladolid, which has been named this year "Medical 5 Stars" by the European Organization of Family Medicine.
The Mayor of Health, has also indicated that "for Saturday November 11 at 12 o'clock, also at the Local Development Center, a set of activities aimed at patients and to which all citizens are invited They are going to be carried out with the collaboration of the associations of diabetics ADILOR of Lorca and ADIA of Águilas, the Federation of Associations of Diabetics of Murcia, FREMUD, the diabetes group of SMUMFyC, and different specialists of the General University Hospital Rafael Méndez and the Department of Health of the City of Lorca.
The Murcia Society of Family and Community Doctors is a scientific society that brings together specialists in Family and Community Medicine in the Region of Murcia and founded in 1984 by a large group of family doctors.
Currently, it is the largest Medical Scientific Society of the Region of Murcia and is part of semFYC, Federation of 17 Autonomous Societies of Family Medicine of Spain.
The aims of the SMUMFYC are the promotion, development, promotion and dissemination of the medical specialty of Family and Community Medicine, and Primary Health Care, which constitutes the first level of health care, which is provided outside of the hospitals.
Likewise, its social purpose is the professional development of its associate members and the group of professionals working in the first level of health, and the development of research in the field of health and the promotion of the improvement of the health of the citizens.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca