What's special about medical generalism? The RCGP's response to the independent Commission on Generalism

Focusing on generalism.

Developing generalism in the South African context.

The largest impact on the South African burden of disease will be made in community-based and primary healthcare (PHC) settings and not in referral hospitals. Medical generalism is an approach to the delivery of healthcare that routinely applies a broad and holistic perspective to the patient's problems and is a feature of PHC. A multi-professional team of generalists, who share similar values ...

10th college of physicians lecture: the challenges of reinventing medical generalism in the 21st century.

Presidents, Fellows, Members, distinguished guests I am honoured to be invited by the Singapore College of Physicians to give this 10th College of Physicians lecture titled: “The Challenges of Reinventing Medical Generalism in the 21st Century”. One of the major challenges which we face in General Internal Medicine is re-inventing medical generalism. We are forced to do this now and in the year...

British Romantic Generalism in the Age of Specialism, 1870-1990.

This essay explores the impact of 'generalism' and 'general practice' on the specialisation of British medicine using the case of neurology in Britain to reveal characteristics of British 'generalist medical culture' from 1870 to 1990. It argues that 'generalism' represented a particular epistemological position in Victorian medicine, one that then created a natural bridge between science and m...

Protecting generalism: moving on from evidence-based medicine?

Quality of decision making in modern health care is defined with reference to evidence-based medicine. There are concerns that this approach is insufficient for, and may thus threaten the future of, generalist primary care. We urgently need to extend our account of quality of knowledge use and decision making in order to protect and develop the discipline. Interpretive medicine describes an alt...