Family Medicine in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Preparing Medical Students to Work in Evolving Health Care Systems

ISBN-13: 9781032351858 / Angielski

Valerie Wass; Victor Ng

Opis

This practical guide is designed specifically to support those planning and conducting family medicine/primary care education within medical schools around the world. It offers medical educators a collection of pithy, easy to follow chapters, guiding the reader through the curriculum requirements with key references for further detail.

Spis treści

Section 1 - Integrating FM into the UG curriculum: Seizing the opportunity

1. Changing health care: Building the evidence for generalism
2. Defining family medicine
3. Social accountability
4. Developing an appropriate workforce for the future
5. Academic primary care
6. Barriers for change and how to overcome these

Section 2 - What to aim for: Principles of curriculum design

7. Humanism in family medicine
8. Addressing population needs
9. Addressing patient and family needs
10. Competency-based curricula
11. Designing an integrated curriculum
12. Values based education: integrating professionalism into the curriculum
13. The Formal, informal and hidden curricula

Section 3 - Integrating FM into the curriculum: how to achieve this

14. Selecting for medical school entry - nature or nurture?
15. Early exposure to family medicine
16. Family medicine attachments: Apprenticeship learning
17. Longitudinal integrated clerkships 
18. Interprofessional learning  
19. Experiential learning for undergraduate medical students  

Section 4 - Teaching and Learning: Methodologies

20. Blended learning 
21. Clinical reasoning
22. Communication skills 
23. Clinical and procedural skills 
24. Handling risk, uncertainty and complexity
25. Well-Being
26. Supervision, mentorship and coaching 
27. Assessing clinical competency

Section 5- Assessment

28. The principles of feedback
29. Principles of assessment and assessment tools
30. Struggling students and fitness to practise
31. Quality improvement & evaluation

Section 6 - Evaluating teaching and learning across the curriculum

32. Evidence based practice: medical education research
33. Faculty development and continuous professional development

Index

O autorze

Val Wass OBE FRCGP FRCP MHPE PhD Professor of Medical Education in Primary Care, Aberdeen University; Emeritus Professor of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine & Health, Keele University, UK; Former Chair, WONCA Working Party on Education

Victor Ng MD CCFP(EM) MHPE FCFP ICD.D Assistant Dean Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western Canada; Associate Director, The College of Family Physicians of Canada; Chair, WONCA Working Party on Education