Unit Code: FMD820

Unit Name: Family Medicine II

Description: This course is designed to utilize the prior knowledge, skills and attitudes demonstrated during the Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine, to enable the candidate to function as a trainee specialist. FMD820 will continue to be delivered by distance education, via intensive workshops and online teaching methodologies, allowing trainees to continue working in approved primary care settings throughout Fiji and, where feasible, elsewhere in the Pacific Region.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Synthesise advanced knowledge of population health into primary medical care, incorporating knowledge of patterns of disease within the region. 2. Apply advanced consultation skills of increasing complexity, including synthesizing patients’ ideas, concerns and expectations and developing person-centred management plans. 3. Formulate preventive health care plans incorporating a detailed analysis of the characteristics of individuals, families and communities. 4. Devise and implement evidence based, person centred management of acute presentations, including emergency presentations. 5. Analyse biopsychosocial features of persons with chronic health care needs, including risk factors for chronic disease; negotiate and implement person centred chronic disease care plans. 6. Demonstrate high level multidisciplinary teamwork skills to co-ordinate referral and follow up of complex cases. 7. Analyse key features of current relevant evidence-based best practice, and demonstrate application of these principles to primary care practice. 8. Demonstrate leadership skills within the local primary care environment, integrating an understanding of health systems with patient advocacy to improve health outcomes.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2