Priority epilepsy program 39 years after its creation actions that give results

Abstract

Introduction: 39 years after its creation, the Priority Epilepsy Program of the Mexico "PPE" has worked uninterruptedly to train first contact doctors in the country on this issue. This article shows the progress of the last five years. Methods: We have records of the activities that we have carried out in the last five years, with the mystique of work of a group of neurologists and pediatric neurologists who work in public institutions throughout the health sector of our country and now we show the medical community Results: We have trained more than a thousand doctors in different cities per year, measuring the degree of learning with pre and post training exams. The PPE has 92 comprehensive Epilepsy Care Centers (CAIE) in public institutions, spread throughout the national territory. We managed to publish 18 articles with themes of approach and treatment of epilepsy with the format of Clinical Guidelines, prepared by the coordinators of the comprehensive Care Centers for epilepsy. We carried out the first training with the NeuroECHO platform of the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, with PPE coordinators and epilepsy experts from the same Institute as teachers, with the endorsement of the Pan-American University and the Mexican Council of Neurology. We began the analysis of data that we have achieved with the National Registry of patients with epilepsy project with more than ten thousand registered patients, which will give us the possibility of having a situational diagnosis of epilepsy in our country. We work to disseminate and help the community in general through social networks and a free application for patients with epilepsy. Discussion and conclusions: This are an evidence synthesis article, written as a narrative review showing the work and results of a National Epilepsy Training Program.