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A new hospital general practice teaching unit
Author(s) -
Moorhead Robert G
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb121220.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , negotiation , payment , general practice , general hospital , government (linguistics) , medical education , triage , teaching hospital , set (abstract data type) , accident and emergency , service (business) , medicine , nursing , psychology , mathematics education , medical emergency , family medicine , sociology , computer science , business , social science , linguistics , philosophy , marketing , world wide web , programming language
The formation of the latest General Practice.Teaching Unit in an Australian hospital is part of a national trend to teach undergraduates and postgraduates about some parts of general practice using patients separated at triage from the accident and emergency departments. Planning this unit required much negotiating between several institutions and a set of guidelines on organisational relationships was created. Innovative features of the Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit include payment of teachers to attend compulsory medical education workshops. dividing the Family Medicine Programme trainee's time between the unit and a neighbouring practice and payment of non‐academic general practitioner teachers by the South Australian Government, which eliminates the risk that service interferes with teaching. The Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit is currently the only hospital based unit of this kind in South Australia.