Scuola Piemontese di Medicina Generale

Scuola Piemontese di Medicina Generale “Massimo Ferrua” (SPMG) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 and recognized by FNOMCeO, dedicated to education, research dissemination, and professional development in General Practice and Primary Care.

Based in Turin, Piedmont, SPMG promotes lifelong learning, evidence-based medicine, scientific innovation, and multidisciplinary collaboration through Continuing Medical Education (ECM) courses, scientific meetings, and educational initiatives. Its mission is to support General Practitioners in addressing the evolving challenges of healthcare while preserving the clinical, scientific, and human dimensions of their profession.

The word Scuola — School — lies at the heart of this identity. A school is more than an institution that teaches medicine: it is a community that continues to learn from medicine as it is practiced. In General Practice, some of the most valuable knowledge emerges from everyday encounters with patients, from relationships built over years, and from clinical questions that rarely have simple answers.

A school gives this knowledge a shared home. It is where the best of General Practice can be recognized, critically examined, taught, and continually improved. Where experience meets scientific evidence, and where those who teach remain, themselves, learners. Because a school is not defined solely by what it teaches, but by what it keeps alive: the willingness to question, to share, and to become better physicians together.

This philosophy also informs SPMG's commitment to scientific research and publishing. In collaboration with AboutOpen, the Scuola Piemontese di Medicina Generale “Massimo Ferrua” has established Family Medicine & Community Care (FM&CC), a new scientific section dedicated to research, clinical experiences, educational contributions, and innovative models of care in General Practice and community healthcare.

The initiative reflects a simple conviction: knowledge generated through everyday clinical practice deserves to be studied, challenged, and shared with the wider scientific community. By connecting clinical experience with rigorous research and scholarly dialogue, FM&CC seeks to strengthen the scientific identity of General Practice and contribute to the development of high-quality, person-centered, and community-oriented healthcare.

Guided by Daniele Angioni, the section represents a further expression of the School's mission: to make the knowledge of General Practice visible, accessible, and capable of inspiring new research and collaboration among clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals at national and international levels.