General Medicine

It includes the delivery of first-contact care to patients in the health system (primary care). It addresses issues related to patient centeredcare, continuity of care, coordination of services, and comprehensive health care.

Objectives

• Whatisapatient-centeredapproach.What are the steps during consultation. What are the steps when physicians have to break bad news. What are the steps when physicians have to announce death. • How physicians manage patients with acute or chronic illness in primary care. Where is the evidence. How physicians in primary care implement guidelines. • What preventive interventions are recommended for primary prevention in adults.When preventive interventions are considered evidence-based. • What are the steps in diagnosis in primary care. Which diagnostic processes in each step are evidence-based. What are the main reasons for diagnostic errors in primary care. • What physicians in primary care should include during the assessment of an elderly patient. • What is palliative care. How physicians in primary care manage patients with end-stage disease. • How physicians in primary care assess patients’ compliance. What interventions may improve compliance in primary care. When physicians in primary care may consider change patients’ medications. • How physicians in primary care implement guidelines for patients with multiple morbidity. How physicians in primary care make a management plan for patients with multiple morbidity.

Prerequisites

Syllabus

• Communication skills • Management of patients with acute or chronic illness in primary care • Prevention • Diagnosis in primary care • Care of the elderly in primary care • Palliative care • Management of patients with multiple medications in primary care – Polypharmacy • Management of patients with multiple morbidity in primary care