Curriculum Block

Objectives

• An understanding of the broad scope of family medicine
• Describe how illness presents differently through the life cycle and in the family medicine setting compared to other settings.
• Demonstrate life long learning practices in providing care to patients.
• Understand the special needs of vulnerable groups related to disparities and inequities in seeking and receiving care. (e.g. Aboriginals, recent immigrants, same-sex relationships, transgendered, marginally housed, disabled, age extremes).
• Discuss common ethical issues in family medicine through the life cycle including topics such as confidentiality, consent and capacity.

Tags

Clerkship Family Medicine Rotation Family medicine 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts. 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 2.6 Understand the process of the dissemination, application, and translation of new health knowledges and practices. 2.99 Other Knowledge for Practice