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Teaching medicine in general practice: the Guy's experience
Author(s) -
HIGGINS P. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1989.tb01576.x
Subject(s) - medical education , service (business) , medical school , test (biology) , clinical practice , medicine , work (physics) , general practice , psychology , teaching method , nursing , pedagogy , family medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , economy , economics , biology
Summary. The development of teaching in general practice at Guy's Hospital Medical School is described. Important features of the current programme (a new programme for the United Schools of Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospitals will come into effect this year) are the emphasis on learning directly from patients and the active role and responsibility given to clinical students. Students welcome the opportunities to see patients first, to deal with undifferentiated problems, to work with one clinical teacher, to put to use knowledge and skills and to test themselves as clinicians. In these circumstances they gain confidence and display the human qualities required of doctors. An acceptable service to patients, the essential basis for effective clinical teaching, requires that general practitioner teachers devote more of their time to service than to clinical teaching.