Welcome to your GP Block. We are delighted that you will now have the opportunity to immerse yourself within primary care, and see all the many dimensions of patient care in the community.

Guidance and Resources – FM&PH – Pre-placement - MED 35

Introduction – FM&PH - Pre-placement - MED 35

Further Material – FM&PH – Pre-placement - MED 35

Background Science – FM&PH – Pre-placement - MED 35

Guidance and Resources – FM&PH – Pre-placement – MED 35

In case FM&PH – Pre-placement

101 things to do when not seeing patients in General practice
This is available for free download to your iPads and gives information about General Practice and ideas of things to do if you have any spare time on your placement!

(part of this content is related to general practice in UK, like GP business and finance. But other parts are essential like how to write a referral letter)

Essential Primary Care

We have purchased access to this book for you and hope that you can make use of it. You may have already downloaded it last year. You can access it via Blackboard.

Prescribing handbook 1 and Prescribing handbook 2
These are referred to throughout these on-line cases and provide reliable prescribing information.

RCGP website
This has some information about GP related events, careers and conferences in UK.

Also www.aafp.org is the web site family physician in the USA.

Information about national screening programmes  can be found here.

See also www.uspreventiveservicetaskforce.org (USPSTF)

coach guide

pharmacotherapy for smoking

CASE COMPONENT

Introduction – FM&PH – Pre-placement – MED 35

In case FM&PH – Pre-placement

Welcome to your GP Block. We are delighted that you will now have the opportunity to immerse yourself within primary care, and see all the many dimensions of patient care in the community.

General Practice is central to a community, and you will have the opportunity on your placement to discover the varied roles of a GP.

***IMPORTANT***

PLEASE NOTE in the first week, we would expect that you work through the on-line material BEFORE the Monday morning teaching session (and before your Monday afternoon study time for that first week) to get the most out of the teaching.

On your placement, you will have the opportunity to be the first one to hear the patient’s story, consider a diagnosis and discuss management plans with your GP Tutor. You will have the opportunity to take histories and do examinations. You will see how the GP arranges and processes investigations, manages risk within the NHS and co-ordinates care between community, secondary care and third sector interfaces.

You will focus on some key elements of GP during your block, and will have the opportunity within the block for:

1. Clinical time with your GP tutor and other members of the practice team

2. Themed Case Discussion and Clinical Debrief

3. Individualised teaching for your needs.

4. ‘In practice’ activities: suggestions for tasks or activities which you can arrange with your GP tutor to learn more about, or see in real life, a particular topic covered through your on-line material.

GPs have in recent years been described as ‘Specialist Generalists’, and we hope that you will understand why following this placement.

The on-line cases are split broadly into the four weeks to cover:

· Community Orientation, including cultural considerations and palliative care in the community

· Communication and behaviour change

· Undifferentiated Presentation of disease

· Complexity and Patient Safety

·     CASE COMPONENT

·       Further Material – FM&PH – Pre-placement – MED 35

·       In case FM&PH – Pre-placement

·       Throughout your placement, think about the differences between community care and hospital care, and the interface between them. Think about how other third sector agencies are involved, and how the multidisciplinary team works in the community.

 IN PRACTICE:
Find out whilst on your placement about the practice population. What is the demographic? What are the particular challenges in meeting their needs locally? How does the practice do this?

CASE COMPONENT

Background Science – FM&PH – Pre-placement – MED 35

In case FM&PH – Pre-placement

Much of the work done in the community has links to public health, and we are fortunate to have a podcast by Dr Will Welfare here, which outlines some of the detail about Public health policy. Dr Will Welfare is a Consultant in Health Protection (Greater Manchester) and Interim Head of Health Protection (Greater Manchester), Public Health England North West.

In the community, there are often healthcare and public health interventions, which need to be considered from an individual and population perspective, and which may also have implications for the global population. Examples include communicable diseases and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Your general practice placement, and tutorials with your GP on a Tuseday, will provide you with the opportunity to think about these wider issues.

There is also learning through your on-line cases and suggested activities, which relate to public health initiatives and we would encourage you to discuss early in your placement with your GP tutor if there are any which could be arranged for you.

Video Player http://www.taibahumbbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/policy-and-health_hd.mp4?_=1

National Screening information