Family Medicine is characterized by giving a special emphasis to the continuity and coordination of care, comprehensive health care to the patient at any stage of their life cycle, individual and family, enriched by the cumulative knowledge of patients and individual ties, family and community events that occur over time. Family Medicine programs arise in response to the need to develop systematic and excellent medical training in the field of Primary Health Care (PHC). 2 The postgraduate training of a family doctor occurs almost entirely in an outpatient setting, mainly in Family Health Centers (CESFAM) as one more member of the health team under the comprehensive health care model (MAIS), Among its clinical attributes, there is the clinical deepening of the frequent topics in which patients consult in an outpatient context, highlighting as main areas, those most prevalent issues of outpatient resolution of internal medicine, pediatrics, adolescence, geriatrics, muscle pain regional skeletal, psychiatry, dermatology, neurology and emergency medicine. In addition to his clinical training of excellence, the family doctor also deepens his learning of those fundamental tools for the proper development of family medicine, which is carried out from a biopsychosocial perspective, with a family and community approach.Among these complementary tools, evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, clinical prevention and health promotion, clinical management, health projects, health education, communication skills, family and systemic approach, family counseling, motivational interviewing for healthy lifestyles, interdisciplinary teamwork, medical ethics and leadership. These tools make it easier for the family doctor to practice humanized and comprehensive medicine, with a high capacity to deal with diagnostic uncertainty, avoiding unnecessary diagnostic studies and favoring therapeutic proportionality, putting the patient's benefit at the center of their work. In addition, he is capable of effectively managing the available resources, works effectively in health teams with a network perspective, adapting his clinical coping to each clinical context in an individualized and judicious manner. Communication skills, family and systemic approach, family counseling, motivational interviewing for healthy lifestyles, interdisciplinary teamwork, medical ethics and leadership.
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