Advanced Patient-Centred
Medicine
M.Cl.Sc. 507
Course Instructor: Judith Belle Brown Ph.D
A
Distance Learning Course for Clinicians
The main objective of this course is to introduce the students to the
patient-centred clinical method, including the history, research evidence and clinical
application. Readings, case presentations and discussion serve as the basis of the course.
COURSE OUTLINE
ON-SITE
- Introduction
- Course objectives
- Course outline
- What does the Patient-Centred Clinical Method (PCCM) mean to you?
- Overview of PCCM (the history, evidence and method)
- Demonstration (video)
- Group discussion
- Session #2 Component I: Exploring Both the Disease and the Illness Experience
- Theoretical overview
- Case presentation
- Discussion
- Session#3 Component II: Understanding the Whole Person
- Theoretical overview
- Case presentation
- Discussion
- Session #4 Component III: Finding Common Ground and Component IV: Incorporating
Prevention and Health Promotion
- Theoretical overview
- Case presentation
- Discussion
Session #5 Component V: Enhancing the Patient-Doctor Relationship and Component VI:
Being Realistic
- Theoretical overview
- Case presentations
- Discussion
- Session #6 Preparation for Online:
- Use of narratives
- Assignment of Weekly facilitators
- Course assignments
- Wrap-up & feedback
ON-LINE
- Session #7 Component I – Exploring Both the Disease and the Illness Experience
- Case Presentation
- Session #8 Component II – Understanding the Whole Person - Case Presentation
- Session #9 Component III: Finding Common Ground – Case Presentation
- Session #10 Component IV: Incorporating Prevention and Health Promotion – Case
Presentation
- Session #11 Component V: Enhancing the Patient-Doctor Relationship – Case
Presentation
- Session #12 Component VI: Being Realistic - Case Presentation
- Session #13 Case presentations and the use of narratives.
- Session #14 Illness narratives – Example
- Session #15 Illness narratives
- Session #16 Illness narratives
- Session #17 Individual personality development
- Session #18 Individual life cycle
- Session #19 Family life cycle
- Session #20 Impact of culture
- Session #21 Determinants of health i.e. poverty
- Session #22 Determinants of health – intervening at a population level
- Session #23 Patient-Doctor Relationship
- Session #24 Patient-Doctor Relationship
- Session #25 Team work and team building
- Session #26 Wrap up and evaluation of the course
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