Transcript Family medicine in basic medical education: What do we add

Family medicine in basic
medical education:
What’s new in Europe?
Dr. Yonah Yaphe
EURACT Council member for Israel
Dept. of Family Medicine Rabin Medical
Centre and Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University
Objectives
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The objectives of this
presentation are:
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to present an overview
of the contribution of
family medicine to
basic medical
education in Europe
to present the work of
the EURACT basic
medical education task
group.
What do medical students value?
Snadden and Yaphe (Medical Teacher, 1996)
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Doing rather than
observing
A friendly learning
environment
A mix of learning styles
Learning practical skills
Timely feedback
Seeing patients as
people
Seeing patients in their
natural context
Enthusiastic teachers
What can we add to BME?
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Things we do (and teach) best!
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Management of common
problems
Undefined problems,
uncertainty
Communication skills
Personal, family and
community perspective
Whole person medicine
Practice management
Innovation in education
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Early Clinical Exposure
(Jerusalem)
Clinical skills lab
(Maastricht)
Simulated patients
(Leicester)
OSCE (Dundee, Oxford)
Summative assessment
(Bergen)
Teacher training
(Ljubljana, see Medical
Education, 1999)
The development of BME (Svab)
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The 70s – The rise of
technical medicine, the
Leewuenhorst group,
first departments of
general practice
The 80s –
dissatisfaction, NLG,
rapid growth
The 90s – Social
change, EURACT,
harmonization
BME in Europe – The numbers
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GP in BME in all
EURACT countries
297 faculties, GP/FM
in 191(64%)
4 newcomers (TK ES
GR IT)
GP/FM in all faculties
in 18 countries
Projects of the BME task force
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Workshop on BME –
Israel
Symposium on BME –
Dublin
Workshop on teacher
training – Ljubljana
Booklet on teaching
practices
Fixed and Rolling
Courses
The way forward
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Harmonization
The definition
The educational
agenda
Implementation
Legislation
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