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Curriculum Objective
Objective
Framework Objectives
The learner will be able to describe how common illnesses present differently in the family practice environment than in the specialist setting:
- Indicates most relevant

Tags

Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
CanMEDS Roles
Medical Expert
Discipline
Family medicine
Level Of Competence
Knows How - Clerkship
MeSH
Family Practice [H02.403.280]
Objective Type
Core

Related Objectives

Parent Objective

The Family Physician is a Skilled Clinician

Child Objectives
  • Prevalence of diagnoses/illnesses in the community.
  • Ill-defined nature of early presentations.
  • Greater uncertainty because patients present at an early, undifferentiated stage of their illnesses — in up to 50% of visits, definitive diagnosis is not possible.
  • Time as a diagnostic tool.
  • Appropriate follow-up management.
  • Appropriate use of diagnostic tools. Because disease prevalence is usually lower in a family practice setting than in a specialty service, the predictive value of many investigations is poor; tests that are useful in a specialty discipline are of little or no value in a family practice.
  • Appropriate use of consultation with other health care providers.
  • Recognition of variants of normal that are not classified as illness.
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