title: [Family Medicine and university in Spain: initial reflections from a national research project].
abstract: In 2006, a national research project was initially designed in Spain, with the basic aim of analysing the level of information on Primary Care that is available to medical students, their perception of the role of family medicine in the health system, and professional practice preferences, as well as the opinion expressed on the usefulness and need of specific teaching on primary care and family medicine during undergraduate studies. A questionnaire was prepared for each of the Spanish Faculties of Medicine to gather quantitative and qualitative data on the current situation on the teaching of primary care and family medicine. In this article, we give a short description of the characteristics of the project, the principle data obtained with this first questionnaire and, importantly, the first reflections on the academic situation of Family Medicine in Spain.
authors.affiliation: División de Evaluación de Servicios, Servicio Catalán de la Salud, Barcelona, Spain. martinzurro@gencat.cat
authors.forename: Amando
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martín Zurro
authors.forename: Josep Jiménez
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Villa
authors.forename: Antonio Monreal
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hijar
authors.forename: Xavier Mundet
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Tuduri
authors.forename: Angel Otero
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Puime
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D013030:Spain; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities