Description
The course provides the residents with the skills required to apply and practice the fundamental concepts of family medicine. This includes the patient’s interview, relationship with patients and families. They will apply the skills of dealing with physical, psychological and social dimensions of patients’ problems. The student will learn and practice diagnosis, and management of problems commonly encountered in primary health care settings. Also application of the health promotion programs will be demonstrated and finally to understand the organization of primary health care in relation to other levels of care.
Description of the project
Students work on identifying the challenges which face the primary health care system in Palestine in applying the family medicine model in providing primary health care in Palestine. . Each student will work on identifying and stratifying the top five possible problems from the points of view of doctors, nurses and patients. Then each student will identify one problem to work on and try to find appropriate possible solutions that can be applied at the site of training and implement it at the end of the course.
