Family Medicine in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Preparing medical students to work in evolving health care systems [Paperback]

This practical guide is designed specifically to support those planning and conducting family medicine/primary care education within medical schools around the world. It offers medical educators a collection of pithy, easy to follow chapters, guiding the reader through the curriculum requirements with key references for further detail.

Val Wass OBE FRCGP FRCP MHPE PhD Professor of Medical Education in Primary Care, Aberdeen University; Emeritus Professor of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine & Health, Keele University, UK; Former Chair, WONCA Working Party on Education

Victor Ng MD CCFP(EM) MHPE FCFP ICD.D Assistant Dean Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western Canada; Associate Director, The College of Family Physicians of Canada; Chair, WONCA Working Party on Education

Section I - Integrating FM into the UG curriculum: Seizing the opportunity

1. Changing healthcare: Building the evidence for generalism
2. Defining family medicine
3. Social accountability
4. Developing an appropriate workforce for the future
5. Academic primary care: The importance of family medicine leaders and role models
6. Barriers for change and how to overcome these

Section II - What to aim for: Principles of curriculum design

7. Humanism in family medicine
8. Addressing population needs
9. Addressing patient and family needs
10. Competency-based curricula
11. Designing an integrated curriculum
12. Values-blc