Private Practice Organisation

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. describe family medicine tools; 2. explain comprehensive and coordinated care and define patient centered approach; 3. define primary care management and explain community oriented care; 4. demonstrate biopsychosocial dimensions of holistic care communication and interview skills; 5. differentiate interrelation of curative and preventive care; 6. appreciate the place of the family physician in the national health system; 7. identify family health beliefs and practices; 8. explain two-way referral system; 9. describe the NHIS cost of health care to the family; and 10. discuss home visits.

Family medicine tools. Comprehensive and coordinated care. Patient centered approach. Primary care management. Community oriented care. Biopsychosocial dimensions of holistic care Communication and interview skills. Interrelation of curative and preventive care. The place of the family physician in the national health system. Family health beliefs and practices. Two-way referral system. The NHIS cost of health care to the family. Home visits.