López EGJ, Cañizares LO, Lemus LER, Valdés MM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The upgrading process is an essential way for gradually the professionals to manage with the academic deficiencies in certain issues and to favor social welfare. Objective: To reflect about the need for the professional upgrading of the family doctor regarding occupational health to provide comprehensive medical care to the worker. Methods: Qualitative study of descriptive character, which used, as theoretical methods, documentary analysis, systematization, analysis and synthesis of bibliographic reviews on the subject studied, for which the authors' criteria and results are evaluated, which are expressed in articles published in journals indexed in different databases. Results: The importance of professional upgrading in occupational health by the family doctor was addressed, in order to provide a timely response to the social demands of health workers, with the aim of promoting and maintaining the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being in all professions. Conclusions: The professional upgrading of the family doctor should be conceived from the scientific diagnosis of the current state of training, which includes the ways to determine learning needs about the health impact of the risk factors present in the work environment.