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August 1^st, 2005 Ministerial Decree (Health-Related Specialty Schools Renewal) defines Community Medicine/PHC as a specialty grouped in “medical disciplines area” (as Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Sport medicine, thermal medicine, oncology, Emergency Medicine).

This is the CM/PHC physician learning path as in the Government decree:
CM specialist acquires theoretical, scientific and professional competences about diagnosis, cure and rehabilitation in acute and chronic diseases and organization, management and checking in Primary Health Care, following the multidimensional view of needs and the integration of diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation processes, consistent with assigned resources.
He/her promotes, manages and organizes Health promotion interventions, illnesses and disability prevention, cure and assistance, rehabilitation and social reintegration of individuals affected by these pathologies, even with team projects and activities.
Specific competences are: managing abilities in primary health care (districts, primary care and Community Medicine department) in the Primary Care coordination network.


CM/PHC specialty provides clinical and management abilities in order to obtain a manager role in Districts, Departments, and Primary care Operative Units.
According to a widely accepted Medical’s Pedagogy’s definition “professional role” consists in a collection of “functions”; every function is structured in a set of “tasks” and every task is developed through a set of “activities” or performances. 

Considering the Didactical Ordination of specialties as in MIUR’s indication,  received from Modena-Reggio Emilia University in the Studies’ Manifesto, referring to didactical goals and settings, CM/PHC physician professional profile’s is described by specific Functions, Tasks and Performances.

CM/PHC physician professional profile:  Functions, Tasks and Activities as a managerial role in Districts, Departments, Primary Care’s Units.