scholarly journals Erasmus medical students' experience and primary care on Crete island, Greece: narrative views and reflections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Wieneke ◽  
Espen Iselvmo ◽  
Evi Kortsidakis ◽  
Foteini Anastasiou ◽  
Theodoros Vasilopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Crete Island ◽  
Erasmus Medical

Senior Medical Students’ Attitudes toward Choosing Residency Programs in Primary Care

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Franklin ◽  
Pamela A. Samaha ◽  
Janet C. Rice ◽  
Susan M. Igras
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Students Attitudes

scholarly journals Assessing factors for choosing a primary care specialty in medical students; A longitudinal study

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1890901
Author(s):  
Corry McDonald ◽  
Austin Henderson ◽  
Patrick Barlow ◽  
Jerrod Keith
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Primary Care Specialty

High frequency of otolaryngology/ENT encounters in Canadian primary care despite low medical undergraduate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Sorichetti ◽  
Julie Pauwels ◽  
Thomas Jacobs ◽  
Neil Chadha ◽  
Emelie Kozak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Symptom Presentation ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Related Symptom ◽  
Medical Undergraduate

Otolaryngology involves the treatment of patients with diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, throat (ENT), and related structures of the head and neck. Many medical students in Canada have limited experiences in ENT and a vast majority of these students go on to pursue a career as primary care physicians. Physicians at a primary care facility classified patient’s visits as either being “ENT” related or not, to assess the amount of ENT related concerns they typically encounter. The data was collected separately in the summer and winter months to assess any seasonal variability. One in eight patient encounters presented with an ENT related concern. The percentage of ENT related symptom presentation visits in the pediatric population for both data collection periods (29%) was more than three times that of the adult population (9%). The rate of ENT symptom presentation in both adult and pediatric populations was not affected by seasonality. Primary care physicians will encounter new patients presenting with ENT related concerns quite frequently. This is especially true in the pediatric patient population. Increased ENT medical education is both necessary and essential for undergraduate medical students, residents, and primary care physicians.

scholarly journals Community diagnosis for a slum population under the field practice area of a government medical college, New Delhi: community-oriented primary care exercise for undergraduate students

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 5404
Author(s):  
P. Aravind Gandhi ◽  
U. Venkatesh ◽  
Poornima Tiwari ◽  
Preety Doley
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Awareness Campaigns

Background: Rapid urbanization has led to the increase in a group of people called ‘Urban poor’ dwelling as a community in ‘Slums’, worldwide. Slums manifest deprivation that transcends income poverty. Hence, we conducted this Community-oriented primary care (COPC) exercise, to give medical students a greater understanding of the situation of individual patients in the slum and to formulate a community diagnosis.Methods: The current study was done at Tyagaraj Nagar Jhuggi in the South district of New Delhi, during Community-oriented primary care (COPC) exercise of undergraduate medical students in their 4th semester over a period of 20 days, using a predesigned proforma for collecting data on health events and determinants of health, from families. 35 households were chosen by systematic random sampling.Results: Out of 179 community members studied, 33 (18.43%) were afflicted with morbidity, which consists of common cold with cough, generalized body pain and joint pain. The sex ratio was found to be 826, literacy rate was 76.9% in the study area, 44.11% of the households were having sanitary latrines owned by them, 68.6% had a closed drainage system 63% of the families used clean fuel for cooking and unmet need of contraception was 85% among eligible couples.Conclusions: Investments in women’s access to various contraceptive preferences are urgently needed to help increase the contraceptive prevalence rate. Health Education and awareness campaigns on prevention of potential mosquito, fly breeding sites, hand hygiene, avoidance of firewood as fuel, establishing smoke outlet and solid waste management should be arranged.

scholarly journals Medical students' assessments of skill development in rural primary care clinics

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hunsaker ◽  
Michael Glasser ◽  
Kim Nielsen ◽  
martin lipsky
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Primary Care Clinics ◽  
Rural Primary Care

scholarly journals Primary Care Tracks in Medical Schools

PRiMER ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maribeth P. Williams ◽  
Denny Fe Agana ◽  
Benjamin J. Rooks ◽  
Grant Harrell ◽  
Rosemary A. Klassen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Family Medicine ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Clerkship Director ◽  
Medicine Clerkship ◽  
Faculty Mentorship

Introduction: With the estimated future shortage of primary care physicians there is a need to recruit more medical students into family medicine. Longitudinal programs or primary care tracks in medical schools have been shown to successfully recruit students into primary care. The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of primary care tracks in departments of family medicine.  Methods: Data were collected as part of the 2016 CERA Family Medicine Clerkship Director Survey. The survey included questions regarding the presence and description of available primary care tracks as well as the clerkship director’s perception of impact. The survey was distributed via email to 125 US and 16 Canadian family medicine clerkship directors.  Results: The response rate was 86%. Thirty-five respondents (29%) reported offering a longitudinal primary care track. The majority of tracks select students on a competitive basis, are directed by family medicine educators, and include a wide variety of activities. Longitudinal experience in primary care ambulatory settings and primary care faculty mentorship were the most common activities. Almost 70% of clerkship directors believe there is a positive impact on students entering primary care.  Conclusions: The current tracks are diverse in what they offer and could be tailored to the missions of individual medical schools. The majority of clerkship directors reported that they do have a positive impact on students entering primary care.

scholarly journals Reliability and validity of ICPC-2-R encoding by medical students

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (40) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle ◽  
Álvaro Damiani Zamprogno ◽  
André Filipe Lucchi Rodrigues ◽  
Lorena Camillato Sirtoli ◽  
Natália Josiele Cerqueira Checon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
International Classification ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Reason For Encounter ◽  
Community Physician ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Reasons For Encounter

Objective: To estimate how reliably and validly can medical students encode reasons for encounter and diagnoses using the International Classification of Primary Care, revised 2nd edition (ICPC-2-R). Methods: For every encounter they supervised during an entire semester, three family and community physician teachers entered the reasons for encounter and diagnoses in free text into a form. Two of four medical students and one teacher encoded each reason for encounter or diagnosis using the ICPC-2-R. In the beginning of the study, two three-hour workshops were held, until the teachers were confident the students were ready for the encoding. After all the reasons for encounter and the diagnoses had been independently encoded, the seven encoders resolved the definitive codes by consensus. We defined reliability as agreement between students and validity as their agreement with the definitive codes, and used Gwet’s AC1 to estimate this agreement. Results: After exclusion of encounters encoded before the last workshop, the sample consisted of 149 consecutive encounters, comprising 262 reasons for encounter and 226 diagnoses. The encoding had moderate to substantial reliability (AC1, 0.805; 95% CI, 0.767–0.843) and substantial validity (AC1, 0.864; 95% CI, 0.833–0.891). Conclusion: Medical students can encode reasons for encounter and diagnoses with the ICPC-2-R if they are adequately trained.

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