David Pearson, Sandra Nicholson

How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements offers practical advice on how to get the most from your time on community visits, within patient consultations, and with the practice team. It highlights the unique opportunities and challenges you will face on placement, from using clinical information systems, to home visits and long term patient relationships, and how to take advantage of new ways of learning with web-based tools, mobile devices and social networking.Key features include: Learning outcomes at the start of each chapter with links to web-based learning, case examples, and tasks to undertake whilst on placement An evidence-based, practical approach to improving learning, teaching, assessment and feedback in community settingsWritten by a team of experienced community-based medical education specialists, it is ideal for all medical students, whether on early clinical placements or later in training, and for tutors and preceptors looking for novel ways to engage their students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118343432
• Artikelnr.: 44632230

Autorenporträt

David Pearson is a?General Practitioner and?Director, Academy of Primary Care, Hull York Medical School, York. Sandra Nicholson is Lead, Academic Unit for Community-Based Medical Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors, x

Introduction, xi

Acknowledgements, xv

Chapter 1: What to learn in community settings, 1
With Ann O'Brien

Introduction, 1

Early years, 3

What to learn during early patient contact, 4

Professionalism and personal growth, 5

Patient perspectives on health and healthcare, 8

Social and psychological aspects of health, 9

Learning clinical method (history taking and examination), 11

Clinical and procedural skills, 13

Middle clinical years, 14

Later clinical years, 22

Learning in the community 'out of hours', 25

Further opportunities, 26

Summary, 29

References, 29

Further resources, 30

Chapter 2: Learning the public health aspects of medicine, 32
With Ann O'Brien

Public health perspectives, 32

Health promotion, 35

Primary and secondary disease prevention, 36

Behaviour change: health promotion and prevention for individuals, 38

Public health and health education, 39

Summary, 41

References, 41

Chapter 3: Preparing for and learning on primary care and community placements, 42
With Maria Hayfron?]Benjamin

Introduction, 42

Preparing for your community placements, 45

When you arrive on placements, 47

Your responsibilities at the end of your placement, 59

Summary, 60

References, 61

Chapter 4: Active learning in the consultation, 62
With Catie Nagel

Introduction, 62

Learning objectives, learning plans, 63

Learning consultation skills, 64

Understanding the consultation, 65

The art of consultation, 66

Engaging with patients, introductions, information, consent, 67

Working with patients, 68

Active learning in the consultation, 71

Student?]led consultations, 76

Problems, pitfalls and suggested solutions, 77

Complex consultations for the later clinical years, 79

Summary, 82

References, 83

Chapter 5: What to learn from the primary healthcare team, 85
With Will Spiring and Ann O'Brien

Introduction, 86

Professional behaviour in a team, 87

What the PHCT does, 90

Learning with and from the primary healthcare team, 95

Learning from the practice nurses, 98

Learning from the pharmacy team, 100

Primary health team meetings, 105

Learning from mistakes, 106

Patients and public involvement in your education, 107

Summary, 109

References, 109

Further resources, 110

Chapter 6: Learning medicine in community settings, 111
With Ann O'Brien and Will Spiring

Learning from community visits, 112

Learning from doctor's home visits, 113

Visiting residential care and nursing homes, 115

Learning from community mental health teams, 116

Long?]term mental healthcare in the community, 119

Community mental health for the elderly, 120

Community maternity and child health services, 121

Community sexual health services, 122

Palliative and end of life care, 123

Summary, 126

References, 126

Further resources, 127

Chapter 7: Clinical information systems, opportunities to learn, 128
With Jane Kirby

What are clinical information systems?, 128

Why learn about clinical information systems?, 129

Clinical information systems in community practice, 130

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