Introduction:

A community of practice is a group of people coming together around the same topic or interest, working together to improve what they do through regular interactions. The Estoril Training Community brings together a group of residents and attending physicians in Family Medicine and Public Health in the region of Estoril (Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal) with the aim of broadening their range of experiences, reflecting the principles of a community of practice. This article reports the experience of the Estoril Training Community and its main objective is to make their practices known, to encourage the sharing of experiences between groups, and inspire the formation of new communities.

Description:

The Estoril Training Community was born in 2015 and was composed by residents and attending physicians in family medicine and public health from four of the functional units of the São João do Estoril’s healthcare center, in Cascais. Since the establishment of the Community, there have been various activities such as periodic meetings, preparation of the Training Community newspaper, organization of the 1st Conference of the Estoril Training Community, among others.

Conclusion:

The Training Community is an asset for mentors and interns, in an interaction where the whole is larger than the sum of the parts. In the case of the Estoril Training Community, the proximity originated by working in the same building allowed its members to create this project in a collaborative and mutual help atmosphere - a productive community, open to dialogue, permeable to its surroundings and with the desire and ability to evolve through the input of each new member and the interactions that are created from there.

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