David Oliver: Celebrating the expert generalist
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David Oliver: Celebrating the expert generalist.
In 2011 the Royal College of General Practitioners led a commission onmedical generalists.Definitions vary, but I like the response from the Medical Schools Council: “doctors prepared to deal with any problem presenting to them, unrestricted by particular body systems and including problems with psychological or social causes as well as physical ones.” The Royal College of Physicians has emphas...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i3701