Adult Education: For the General Practitioner

The general practitioner and continuing education.

A continuing education program for the general practitioner is presented that would provide a degree or certificate of advanced status on completion. This long-term program would be made possible by giving credit hours for continuing education courses taken, then redeeming these credits for the certificate or degree on completion. The dentist's choice in continuing education programs is protect...

The General Practitioner Psychiatric Education? Devadass

The general practitioner is in a privileged position with regards to illness in the community. He is usually the first person that people bring their symptoms to and hence he generally sees illnesses in their earliest stages. This is especially so in an urban setting with the greater concentration of practitioners and the general acceptance of doctors as primary care professionals. Greater skil...

The general practitioner and community health education.

Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry for the General Practitioner

The improvement in the public health during the past century has resulted in an increased expectation of life. Today the public have gone a step further, and they are showing an increasing interest not only in the quantity of life available to each person but also in the quality of that life. Certainly what prevents many from enjoying a full and productive life within the affluent society in wh...

The contribution of the general practitioner to undergraduate medical education.

1. The place of the general practitioner in medical care. 2. The meaning of basic medical education. 3. The reasons why a contribution from general practice is needed in the basic education of all doctors. 4. The nature of the contribution, in outline and in detail. This is presented as a range of content from which any medical school can choose. 5. The way in which this contribution differs fr...