Resolution No. G-1196, 14 September 1988.

This Resolution creates a Department of Family Medicine under the Directorate of Medical Attention in the General Sectoral Directorate of Health of Venezuela. The Resolution was issued as part of a strategy to develop primary health attention in all the communities of the country. Among the functions of the Directorate are the following: 1) to promote, participate, and give advice on the programming of activities essential to the activities of primary medical attention; 2) to supervise, evaluate, and control activities relating to family medicine programs in primary attention establishments; and 3) to promote and program training and actualization courses of primary medical attention for general physicians and specialists in family medicine.