Family medicine in basic medical education: What

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Family medicine in basic medical education
Whats 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

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Objectives

• The objectives of this presentation are
• 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.

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What do medical students value?Snadden and Yaphe
(Medical Teacher, 1996)

• 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

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What can we add to BME?

• Things we do (and teach) best!
• Management of common problems
• Undefined problems, uncertainty
• Communication skills
• Personal, family and community perspective
• Whole person medicine
• Practice management

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Innovation in education

• Early Clinical Exposure (Jerusalem)
• Clinical skills lab (Maastricht)
• Simulated patients (Leicester)
• OSCE (Dundee, Oxford)
• Summative assessment (Bergen)
• Teacher training (Ljubljana, see Medical
  Education, 1999)

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Innovation in assessment (TAU)

• OSCE Doctors as patients and assessors
• The virtual clinic On line chatrooms
• Triple jump exam Assess, learn, assess

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The development of BME (Svab)

• 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

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BME in Europe The numbers

• 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

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Projects of the BME task force

• Workshop on BME Israel
• Symposium on BME Dublin
• Workshop on teacher training Ljubljana
• Booklet on teaching practices
• Fixed and Rolling Courses

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The way forward

• Harmonization
• The definition
• The educational agenda
• Implementation
• Legislation

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For further information

• Yaphe.esmartweb.com
• Yonahyaphe_at_hotmail.com