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Unit Code: FMD830

Unit Name: Family Medicine III

Description: This course is designed to utilize the prior knowledge, skills and attitudes demonstrated during the prior two years of study, to enable the candidate to function as a trainee family medicine specialist. FMD830 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. Trainees will spend this year focusing on advancing their skills in the breadth of Family Medicine practice, in preparation for the final examinations. Following on from MED811, candidates should also spend this year advancing their research and ensuring that all necessary approvals such as ethical approval are secured.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Synthesize increasingly advanced knowledge of population health into primary medical care, incorporating knowledge of patterns of disease within the region. 2. Apply and analyse advanced consultation skills which incorporate high level counselling techniques, synthesize patients’ ideas, concerns and expectations and develop person-centred management plans. 3. Formulate and review preventive health care plans incorporating an increasingly detailed analysis of the characteristics of individuals, families and communities. 4. Analyse and review patient outcomes of evidence based, person centred management of acute presentations, including emergency presentations. 5. Perform detailed biopsychosocial analysis of persons with chronic health care needs, including risk factors for chronic disease; negotiate and implement person centred chronic disease care plans which encourage self-management. 6. Demonstrate high level multidisciplinary teamwork skills to co-ordinate referral and follow up of complex cases; begin to assume a leadership role within such teams. 7. Comprehensively analyse key features of current relevant evidence-based best practice, and demonstrate application of these principles to primary care practice. 8. Utilise senior leadership skills within the broader primary care environment, integrating an understanding of health systems with patient advocacy to improve health outcomes.

Prerequisite: FMD820 & MED811

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2