Zeitschrift für Allgemeinmedizin

Developments in Family Medicine

Abstract

Anwar Joudeh

The use of specialist care, which may be unneeded and have the potential to damage patients, can be decreased by the implementation of primary health care in a timely and beneficial manner. Referral to a specialist for disease-specific care can frequently be avoided when primary health practitioners are able to promote preventative measures or make early interventions, which lowers the risks associated with treatment. Improvements in information technology and video communication for specialist consulting while in the primary care environment have been pioneered in some nations, notably the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Family medicine will be in charge of supervising the training of family doctors who are dedicated to excellence, steeped in the discipline's core values, skilled at delivering the New Model of Family Medicine's basket of services, adept at adapting to changing patient and community needs, and ready to adopt new evidence-based technologies. Training in maternity care, hospital patient care, community and population health, and culturally competent and effective treatment will all still be a part of family medicine curriculum. The Residency Review Committee for Family Practice will support innovation in family medicine residency programmes through five to ten years of flexible curriculum to allow for active experimentation and on-going critical evaluation of competency-based education, expanded training programmes, and other techniques to prepare graduates for practise.