The Portuguese Family Medicine residency program lasts four years and consists in a number of both mandatory and elective internships, of variable duration. The elective training periods can be decided by residents with the agreement of both the respective trainers and residency bodies, after taking in consideration its relevance and feasibility. Residency training bodies also organize some in-house short courses on specific topics.
One important characteristic of the discipline of Family Medicine is longitudinal care of patients throughout their lives. Because of the ageing population and their increased complexity, it is expected that family physicians will increasingly provide palliative measures to their patients.2 Therefore, we consider that palliative care training is essential for the resident’s growth as a family physician. Even though the current training program is already trying to raise awareness of training in palliative care, there is still no mandatory training during residency.

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