Various heads of the IMPaCT Cohort explained the progress of the project at a round table held at the SEMFYC (Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine) Congress on 12 May.
Marina Pollán, coordinator of the IMPaCT Cohort, and those responsible for the project in the Community of Madrid and Aragon, Isabel del Cura and Luis Hijós, participated in the table, offering an overview of the development of the pilot studies underway.
The first intervention was that of Marina Pollán, who highlighted the role of precision medicine for prevention and offered an overview of the IMPaCT Cohort, Pollán presented the objectives of the project, its design, the working groups and the organization in 50 IMPaCT nodes that will be distributed throughout Spain.
Subsequently, Isabel del Cura explained the development of the pilot study in the first two Autonomous Communities in which it was launched, Madrid and the Balearic Islands. Del Cura highlighted how participation and logistics work in urban nodes.
Luis Hijós, for his part, shared his experience as head of a rural node. Of the four pilot studies that have already been launched (Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid), only the one in Monzón (Huesca) is a rural node. Hijós reviewed the difficulties posed by rurality and highlighted the value of also reaching these points with research.
To respond to the territorial distribution of the Spanish population, 70% of the 50 IMPaCT nodes will be urban and 30% rural.
The 43rd SEMFYC Congress was held from 11 to 13 May in Donostia.