Oxford Primary Skills 1 Download
Ammiel Fried
The communication skills course is taught principally in Year 4. It comprises small-group sessions involving actors and role-play, supervised by GP tutors. The main role of the tutor is to act as facilitator, giving feedback to students and encouraging constructive contributions from the group. Each session has a different theme:
There is also a session in Year 5, run jointly with the Psychiatry Department. This is about the communication skills required to deal effectively with mental health presentations such as acute psychosis and personality disorder.
Whilst students are on their 4th Year attachment in a District General Hospital (DGH), they get to spend three afternoons in General Practice. The purpose of these sessions is to consolidate the clinical skills they are learning on the wards and to gain experience of Primary Care presentations of illness. Students are attached to practices in Reading, Swindon, Northampton and High Wycombe/Stoke Mandeville.
The Evidence-Based Medicine Course teaches students skills in searching and critical appraisal. It not only supports their medical studies, but also aims to give them a framework for approaching clinical decision-making throughout their future careers.
Results: Forty-six articles were included in the review. Task substitution between pharmacists and GPs and nurses and GPs resulted in an improved process of care and patient outcomes, such as improved disease control. The interventions were either health promotion or disease management according to guidelines or use of protocols, or a mixture of both. The results of this review indicate that pharmacists and nurses can effectively provide disease management and/or health promotion for older people with chronic disease in primary care. While there were improvements in patient outcomes no reduction in health service use was evident.
This module provides all who work in primary care an opportunity to examine the core ideas that underpin daily practice. The module uses a flipped approach (the course content is online allowing you to prepare much of the material before the contact days). The contact days therefore focus on applying ideas to practice using a combination of small groups, masterclasses and interactive panel sessions. After completion of the module you will have gained an insight into postgraduate study and an entry into a rich variety of further learning opportunities.
1. The evidence underpinning the efficiency of primary care and primary care-based healthcare systems with the purpose of enabling participants to evaluate proposals and pressure for change. Key areas to cover would include:
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