Antonia Colicchio, Italy,

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Group 2

• Antonia Colicchio, Italy,
• Andrea Moser, Italy
• Ashraful Mirza, United Kingdom,
• Carla Pereira, Portugal,
• Chantal Emaus, Netherlands,
• David Darmon, France,
• Ellen Louise Kristensen, Denmark,
• Maria Solis, Spain, Vojislav Ivetic, Slovenia
• Norma Sartori, GP teacher Italy, Luis Filipe
  Gomes, GP teacher EURACT

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PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT

• REASONS TO BECOME A GP
• CHALLENGES THE MODERN GP FACES

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Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine

• An academic and scientific discipline with its
  own educational content, research, evidence base,
  clinical activity and a clinical speciality
  orientated primary care.

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Reasons to become a GP

• Dynamic and diverse career
• Exciting and challenging
• Flexibility
• Continuity of care
• Treat patients of all age groups and disease
  modalities
• Quality of the patient-doctor relationship
• Not wasting the knowledge of medical school
  training

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Skills required to become a GP

• Good communication
• Patient centredness
• Supportive, empathic and sympathetic
• Ability to appreciate intercultural consultations
  
• Coordination with other professionals
• Implement evidence based medicine
• Good documentation/handwriting
• Manages patients ethically (ethical framework)

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Ethical framework

• Autonomy (see photograph slides)
• Beneficence
• Confidentiality and consent
• Do no harm
• Equity for all

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Skills required to become a GP

• Comprehensive and holistic care
• Independence
• Connection with the community treating several
  generations
• Broad scope of interests
• Using time as a resource/management tool
• Team work and team building
• The ability to communicate with and advocate for
  patients
• Good communication skills/psychosocial skills

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Challenges the modern GP faces

• Access
• practice
• home visit
• telephone
• internet/email
• Information technology
• practice websites
• email consultations and prescriptions
• Increasing medico-legal implications

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Challenges the modern GP faces

• Recognition of General Practice as a specialty
• Political changes
• role as the gatekeeper
• rationing
• practice based commissioning
• Training changes
• Examinations
• Competition with immigrating colleagues
• Patient choice and consumerism

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The Wisdom Tree
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