Family Medicine: Clinical Management, Bioethics and Research | Primary Care Treaty

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An exhaustive and systematic analysis of the scientific, ethical and management pillars that support the clinical practice of the specialty. From McWhinney's epistemology and the essential properties of Starfield, to the bioethical analysis of quaternary prevention, the management of complex pluripathology, research based on real practice and the approach to community health from the...

What it covers

1. Family and Community Medicine
2. Epistemology of the Specialty and Identity of Family Medicine
3. · 1.1 · McWhinney's Principles: The Structure of Family Knowledge
4. · 1.2 · Differentiation between Continuity and Longitudinality
5. · 1.3 · The General Systems Theory applied to the Disease Process
6. Demand Management and Access in Primary Care
7. · 2.1 · Types of Demand in the Daily Consultation
8. · 2.2 · Triage Models and Shared Demand Management
9. The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Person-Centered Clinical Interview
10. · 3.1 · The Levenstein and Stewart Method: The Six Dimensions
11. · 3.2 · The Calgary-Cambridge Guide: Structuring Communication
12. · 3.3 · The Motivational Interview (Miller and Rollnick)
13. Family Systemic and Life Cycle of the Marital and Kinship Unit
14. · 4.1 · The Family Life Cycle (Duvall and Carter & McGoldrick Model)
15. · 4.2 · Clinical Family Assessment Tools
16. Applied Clinical Bioethics in the Field of Primary Care
17. · 5.1 · The Hierarchy of Principles (Diego Gracia)
18. · 5.2 · Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity
19. · 5.3 · Advance Directives and Living Will (LVA)
20. Quaternary Prevention and Patient Safety at the First Level
21. · 6.1 · The Classification of Prevention Levels (Marc Jamoulle)
22. · 6.2 · Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment and the Cascade Effect
23. · 6.3 · Safe Deprescribing Strategies
24. Management of the Complex Chronic Patient and Pluripathology
25. · 7.1 · Complexity Stratification Models (Kaiser Permanente and CRG)
26. · 7.2 · Pharmacological Reconciliation in Care Transitions
27. · 7.3 · Case Management and Home Hospitalization
28. Research Methodology in the Field of Family Medicine
29. · 8.1 · Epistemological Peculiarities of Research in Primary Care
30. · 8.2 · Specific Research Designs: Mixed Approach
31. · 8.3 · Implementation Science (RE-AIM Framework)
32. Quality, Audit and Indicators in Primary Care Clinical Management
33. · 9.1 · The Donabedian Triad: Structure, Process and Result
34. · 9.2 · The Continuous Improvement Cycle (Deming Cycle / PDCA)
35. · 9.3 · Design of Key Clinical Indicators in Primary Care
36. Community Health, Social Determinants and Family Guidance
37. · 10.1 · The Social Gradient of Health and Inequity
38. · 10.2 · Community Oriented Primary Care (APOC)
39. · 10.3 · Health Assets and Social Prescription
40. Pharmacopolitics, Prudent Prescription and Rational Use of Drugs
41. · 11.1 · The Principles of Prudent Prescription in the Elderly
42. · 11.2 · Pharmacopolitics and Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
43. · 11.3 · Pharmacotherapeutic Reconciliation and Electronic Prescription Review
44. Approach to Mental Health and Psychosomatic Disorders in the Consultation
45. · 12.1 · Prevalence and Challenge of Mental Health in Primary Care
46. · 12.2 · Management of Hyperfrequent and Somatizing Patients
47. Clinical Reasoning, Heuristics and Uncertainty in Family Medicine
48. · 13.1 · Bayes' Theorem and Prevalence in Primary Care
49. · 13.2 · Common Cognitive Biases in Primary Diagnosis
50. · 13.3 · The Management of Uncertainty and Diagnosis over Time
51. Management of Social Vulnerability, Violence and Abuse in Primary Care
52. · 14.1 · The Role of the Family Physician as a Sentinel of Vulnerability
53. · 14.2 · Socio-health Coordination and Social Work
54. Home Palliative Care and Support at the End of Life
55. · 15.1 · Control of Refractory Physical Symptoms
56. · 15.2 · The Palliative Sedation Process at Home
57. Teaching, Technology and Future Challenges of Family Medicine
58. · 16.1 · Postgraduate Medical Training (The Residency Model)
59. · 16.2 · Telemedicine and Technological Challenges
60. · Key Principles of Modern Family Medicine