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“Nosotros” Approach:  Community health workers as trust builders and community healers

Authors:

RL Ferrer, CG Schlenker, RS Poursani, I Cruz, P Noel, R Palmer, CR Jaén

Department of Family and Community Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Texas, USA

Context: Promoting patients’ commitment to engage in self-care is a core goal of primary care, yet often elusive in the context of social deprivation.

The Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd): A cluster randomised controlled trial aimed at increasing LARC uptake

Presenter: Danielle Mazza

Authors: Danielle Mazza, Cathy Watson, Kirsten Black, Jayne Lucke, Angela Taft, Kevin McGeechan, Marion Haas, Kathleen McNamee, Jeffrey Peipert

Context

LARCs reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion rates but Australian uptake is low. General practitioners (GPs) are ideally placed to promote LARCs. 

This year's Northern SAPC Conference saw the beginning of a new initiative - the  SAPC Northern Powerhouse.

The SAPC NPO is a network of networks - bringing together SAPC departments of Academic Primary Care within partners engaged in primary care schoalrship from across our region. 

To drive collaborative innovations in education and research that deliver sustained and sustainable primary care excellence.

Tell someone you are training to be a doctor, and the response is often, “what will you specialise in?” Many doctors specialise in the management of specific conditions (e.g. diabetes or cancer) or of organ systems (e.g. cardiology, urology). But growing proportions of patients have problems that don’t fit neatly into these biomedically defined categories.

Which is why we also need doctors who specialise in whole person medicine. These are doctors with the distinct skills and expertise of medical generalism [1]. Skills that enable them to safely construct robust, individually-tailored, whole-person explanations of illness experience; and so implement person-centred healthcare designed to enhance health-related capacity for daily living [2].

The NHS Long Term Plan [3] recognises that changes in our population – including growing numbers of older people living with (often multiple) chronic illness - mean we need to expand our capacity for medical generalist practice within modern healthcare – both in hospital and primary care settings.

So what is medical generalism? What does the medical generalist do? What skills do they use to practice? And what do you need to know if you are interested in working as a medical generalist?

This essay offers an introduction to how you can use your medical training to find out more about this most intellectually stimulating area of medical practice.

It forms part of the Undergraduate Curriculum Guidance produced by SAPC and RCGP

The SAPC ASM 2020 will be the first SAPC ASM to be truly baby friendly.   

The whole conference will be baby friendly. In addition, there will be a dedicated fun baby room for parents and their babies, including:

Abstract submission is now closed (the deadline was 16th February 2020)

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Thank you if you submitted an abstract, workshop or creative piece.  Your submission will be reviewed and you will be notified of the Scientific Programme Committee's decision by the end of April.

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