Background:

the specialized improvement of the comprehensive general practitioner must be aimed at raising their professional level in primary health care, particularizing the individual characteristics of each patient.

Objective:

to diagnose the current state of preparation of general practitioners in primary health care in terms of knowledge to provide comprehensive and specialized care to children with special educational needs, belonging to the "Ignacio Agramonte" University Polyclinic in Camagüey.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out between from September to December 2021. Theoretical methods were applied: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; and empirical ones, documentary review and questionnaire to the doctors who work in the doctor´s offices of the area.

Results:

the diagnosis made possible to identify shortcomings in the professional training of the general practitioner from his training program in the Comprehensive General Medicine specialty, which hinder successful work in terms of comprehensive care for children with special needs, in order to promote their social inclusion and the benefit of their individual development.

Conclusions:

the deficiencies found ratify the need to implement an improvement strategy regarding the subject to improve the distinctive community work of the comprehensive general practitioner.

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