Currently, family doctors or paediatricians who perform a primary care activity of the National Health System in one of the participating Autonomous Communities may be BIFAP collaborators.

It is not an indispensable requirement that they hold a quota, so resident internal doctors, alternate, interim or continued care doctors at Primary Care may also apply to be collaborators. 

BIFAP collaborators are Primary Care professionals in participating communities who voluntarily choose to help the BIFAP programme. This help is firstly realized by improving the way they record information during their usual clinical practice. To this end, recommendations on how best to record information are sent to collaborators on a regular basis so that it can be used in epidemiological studies.

Collaborating physicians may, on a voluntary basis, actively participate in improving the quality of BIFAP research by performing some more specific tasks whose dedication time can be quantified to be subsequently recognised:

1. Participating in database quality improvement tasks, dedicating time to perform standardisation tasks related to diagnostic and prescription drug information contained in BIFAP. This standardisation is carried out using online tools made available to collaborating physicians.

2. Providing expert clinical knowledge to help improve the quality of specific studies by other researchers by responding to surveys or conducting their own studies as a principal investigator. 

In addition to assisting in the maintenance of a national and public-owned epidemiological source of information aimed at improving the safety of the medicinal product, collaborating physicians are beneficiaries of the following services:

1. They access the BIFAP Services website where they have aggregate statistics on BIFAP patients both globally and within their Autonomous Community. Collaborators who hold a quota also have access to the aggregate data of their patients.

2. They have the specific support of the BIFAP Collaborator Support Unit to carry out their own research studies using BIFAP data.

3. In addition, by filling-in the Profile-Plus, they can share their interests in different areas of research and participate in research studies conducted at BIFAP.

4. All physicians who are registered as BIFAP collaborators and show their commitment to good HCE registration will receive, upon request, a document certifying that as of the day of issue they are listed as BIFAP collaborating physicians.

5. Physicians who have also performed specific database improvement tasks for which the time to perform can be quantified will receive a document certifying the number of hours for each calendar year, provided that they exceed a minimum of 10 hours in that period.