Review 2016

Filling the gaps between theory and daily clinical procedural skills training in family medicine

Education for Primary Care
Journal · Vol. 27 · Issue 3 · pp. 172-176
Abstract

Performance of procedures is an integral part of any family physician/general practitioner's practice. Unfortunately, discrepancy occurs between the existing theoretical methods of procedural teaching and the training imparted during real daily practice, which creates gaps that need to be overcome. This article identifies and reviews teaching gaps in family medicine training and presents suggestions to overcome them with a view to forming holistic psychomotor skills based on the learner's characteristics within the patient-centred philosophy of family medicine. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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teaching General Practice psychomotor skills Family Medicine Procedural skills Minor surgery Procedures

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Teaching clinical competence human medical education Humans Internship and Residency curriculum education general practice general practitioner human experiment theoretical model Surgery Family Practice family medicine Surgical Procedures, Operative standards minor surgery philosophy of medicine psychomotor performance
Author Affiliations
Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada
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No funding information
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