training

Year of family medicine established: 1982 (Arya et al., 2017)

Type of Training: Residency (Nivelo, 2018)

Length of Training: 7 years of Medical School, followed by a 3-year Residency Program (Nivelo, 2018)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 7

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: Specifically, at the Universidad de Chile, it is 9-12 (Nivelo, 2018)

practice

Number of family doctors: Few people stay after residency (Nivelo, 2018)

Physician to population ratio: On average, there are 103 physicians per 100,000 people (Nivelo, 2018).

DALY: 12,995 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 82.1 years

• Males 2017: 77.2 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2017 Males: 105 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2017 Females: 65 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 95%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• NO

training

The first set of family physicians in this country were trained in the year of 1982. Within the public system there are about 25,000 physicians and only 500 trained family physicians. There are about 16 medical schools in the country now, coming up from only 9 in 1981. Eleven of those 16 are private and the other 5 are public medical schools.

practice

Chile also has general practitioners and nurses. Family physicians in Chile are called “medico de familia” (Nivelo, 2018). They perform home visits, where they work with families. They are also clinical based, and work within the community. There is a gatekeeping system in Chile, in which referrals are required in order to see a specialist (Nivelo).  Family physicians work in a community and family model of health delivery in basic teams. It is a community-oriented primary care model (Nivelo).