The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands celebrates the MIR-4 scientific meeting, where the research projects of the Resident Internal Physicians (MIR) who concluded their training in Lanzarote will be presented. The event will be attended by health officials and political and social authorities of the island, as well as the participation of the Head of Studies and doctor José Luis Ibero Villa, who has supervised the training of these professionals at the Teaching Center of Family and Community Medicine (MFYC) of Lanzarote, zone III of Arrecife.
The event will take place this Friday at 1:00 p.m. in the assembly hall of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital, featuring the three residents who have completed the Specialty Training Program in Family and Community Medicine as Doctors - which lasted four years, during the courses 2006-2010 - through the residency system in the Teaching Unit of Family and Community Medicine (MFYC) of Lanzarote.
Specifically, the Resident Internal Physicians are: Milagrosa Delgado Benítez, who will present the Project entitled Prevalence of Renal Insufficiency in Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients of a Basic Health Zone of Lanzarote; Francisco Javier Noves Sánchez, who will present his work Characteristics and Quality of Life of Patients with Oral Anticoagulation, and Jennifer Jorge Pérez will explain in her work Risk of Osteoporotic Fracture in a Basic Health Zone of Lanzarote.
The teaching units
The MFyC Teaching Units are defined as the set of personal and material resources, healthcare, teaching and research devices, necessary to provide regulated training in the specialty of Family and Community Medicine through the residency system (MIR), in accordance with the provisions of the official program of the specialty.
The Teaching Units meet the accreditation requirements established by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, being periodically subjected to an audit process to evaluate their training quality.
The Autonomous Community of Canary Islands has seven Teaching Units of Family and Community Medicine (Las Palmas North and South, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife North and South, and La Palma), accredited for the annual training of 70 resident doctors.
The official program of the specialty has a duration of four years, of which more than half is carried out in primary care health centers.
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