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Family medicine in basic medical education: What ’ s new in Europe?. Dr. Yonah Yaphe EURACT Council member for Israel Dept. of Family Medicine Rabin Medical Centre and Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University. Objectives. The objectives of this presentation are:
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Family medicine in basic medical education: What’s new in Europe? Dr. Yonah Yaphe EURACT Council member for Israel Dept. of Family Medicine Rabin Medical Centre and Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University
Objectives • The objectives of this presentation are: • to present an overview of the contribution of family medicine to basic medical education in Europe • to present the work of the EURACT basic medical education task group.
What do medical students value?Snadden and Yaphe (Medical Teacher, 1996) • Doing rather than observing • A friendly learning environment • A mix of learning styles • Learning practical skills • Timely feedback • Seeing patients as people • Seeing patients in their natural context • Enthusiastic teachers
What can we add to BME? • Things we do (and teach) best! • Management of common problems • Undefined problems, uncertainty • Communication skills • Personal, family and community perspective • Whole person medicine • Practice management
Innovation in education • Early Clinical Exposure (Jerusalem) • Clinical skills lab (Maastricht) • Simulated patients (Leicester) • OSCE (Dundee, Oxford) • Summative assessment (Bergen) • Teacher training (Ljubljana, see Medical Education, 1999)
The development of BME (Svab) • The 70s – The rise of technical medicine, the Leewuenhorst group, first departments of general practice • The 80s – dissatisfaction, NLG, rapid growth • The 90s – Social change, EURACT, harmonization
BME in Europe – The numbers • GP in BME in all EURACT countries • 297 faculties, GP/FM in 191(64%) • 4 newcomers (TK ES GR IT) • GP/FM in all faculties in 18 countries
Projects of the BME task force • Workshop on BME – Israel • Symposium on BME – Dublin • Workshop on teacher training – Ljubljana • Booklet on teaching practices • Fixed and Rolling Courses
The way forward • Harmonization • The definition • The educational agenda • Implementation • Legislation
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