Monash University Medicine handbook 1995

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MFM2000

Academic basis of general practice/family medicine

Associate Professor L Piterman and Professor R Strasser

First semester

The subject aims to (1) develop students' knowledge and understanding of concepts in medicine, particularly in relation to general practice/family medicine; (2) clarify and broaden their conceptual frameworks of general practice/family medicine including the knowledge of its theoretical foundations; and (3) expand their perspectives on academic general practice/family medicine. The following topics describe the content of this subject: medicine as science; the science and art of medicine; the technology and craft of medicine; health and illness, sickness and disease; aetiology, diagnosis and prognosis; concepts of healing; history and philosophy of general practice/family medicine; conceptual framework of general practice/family medicine; clinical decision making in general practice/family medicine; roles and tasks of the general practitioner; general practice in the community and community health; future directions of general practice; academic general practice: general practitioners in the university setting.

Assessment

Three short essays: 1000-1500 words * Presentation of journal containing a record of activities carried out during the sessions

Prescribed texts

Balint M The doctor, his patient and the illness 2nd edn, Pitman Medical, 1964

Hetzel R The new physician Houghton Mifflin, 1991

McWhinney I R A textbook of family medicine OUP, 1989



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