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

COURSE DETAILS

Level:

Type:

Undergraduate

(A+)


Instructors: Athina Tatsioni, Konstantinos Siamopoulos, Georgios Daskalopoulos, Alexandros Drosos, Sofia Kalantaridou, Konstantinos Katsanos, Eleni Kapsali, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Evangelos Liberopoulos, Alexandros Makis, Venetsianos Mavreas, Haralampos Milionis, Ioannis Bassoukas, Evangelos Briasoulis, Georgios Nakos, Evangelia Ntzani, Evangelia Dounousi, Petros Skapinakis, Stylianos Tigkas, Stavroula Tsiara, Nikolaos Chaliasos
Department: Medical School
Institution: University of Ioannina
Subject: Clinical Medicine
Rights: CC BY-NC-SA

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