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Observational Study
General Practice/Family Medicine Portuguese doctors: "technicists" or "systemics"?
To study if the consultation's problems classification of a fictitious case by General and Family Medicine doctors, showed the characteristics of being a mechanistic or a systemic approach. Exploratory cross-sectional observational study in a convenience sample of the General Practice/Family Medicine population, internees included, in April 2020, applying a modified real world clinical case. Central Portugal and the Autonomous Region of Azores. ⋯ In the Subjective chapter of the SOAP methodology, 44.1% (n=100) were "technicists", for Assessment n=93 (40.8%) were "technicists" and for P chapter classification 56.8% were "technicists". For S, A and P chapters classification there was no significant difference between the considered variables. In this sample General Practice/Family Medicine Portuguese doctors were more "systemic" for the S and A chapters of the SOAP model, And "technicists" in the P chapter.