PL-6.1 Family Medicine as a mission- From wonderful developments in Brazil over 25 years to a reality with no family medicine in Benin

Sister Monique Marcelina Bourget, Benin

Coordinator of Pastoral work for Little children and pregnant ladies
Caritas
Diocese of Cotonou

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Overview

The development of family medicine as a specialty in Brazil underlining the community aspect 

Case report of the development of a network in the city of Sao Paulo 

Special contributions from the Canadian curriculum

The reality of the health care system in Benin

Implementation of a Mother and Child health program with volunteers 

Objectives

- to overview different realities of health care systems and the role of Family Medicine

- to explain how the Speciality of Family Medicine and Community is developing in Brazil and its particularities

                  - Community Health Agents and the Nuclear Teams

                  - Expanded teams with other professionals

                  - Community Centers with many physicians

                  - Family Medicine in the Medical Curriculum and the Residency program

- Derivatives of a Family Medicine mind - Humanisation of Obstetrical Care and implementation of Palliative Care

- The struggles of the specialty in many countries still (example of Benin)

- The challenges of a poor country with no social medicine

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