Family Medicine: Clinical Management, Bioethics and Research | Primary Care Treaty
Family Medicine · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Un análisis exhaustivo y sistemático de los pilares científicos, éticos y de gestión que sustentan la práctica clínica de la especialidad. Desde la epistemología de McWhinney y las propiedades esenciales de Starfield, hasta el análisis bioético de la prevención cuaternaria, la gestión de la pluripatología compleja, la investigación basada en la práctica real y el abordaje de la salud comunitaria desde los…
What it covers
- Family and Community Medicine
- Epistemology of the Specialty and Identity of Family Medicine
- · 1.1 · McWhinney's Principles: The Structure of Family Knowledge
- · 1.2 · Differentiation between Continuity and Longitudinality
- · 1.3 · The General Systems Theory applied to the Disease Process
- Demand Management and Access in Primary Care
- · 2.1 · Types of Demand in the Daily Consultation
- · 2.2 · Triage Models and Shared Demand Management
- The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Person-Centered Clinical Interview
- · 3.1 · The Levenstein and Stewart Method: The Six Dimensions
- · 3.2 · The Calgary-Cambridge Guide: Structuring Communication
- · 3.3 · The Motivational Interview (Miller and Rollnick)
- Family Systemic and Life Cycle of the Marital and Kinship Unit
- · 4.1 · The Family Life Cycle (Duvall and Carter & McGoldrick Model)
- · 4.2 · Clinical Family Assessment Tools
- Applied Clinical Bioethics in the Field of Primary Care
- · 5.1 · The Hierarchy of Principles (Diego Gracia)
- · 5.2 · Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity
- · 5.3 · Advance Directives and Living Will (LVA)
- Quaternary Prevention and Patient Safety at the First Level
- · 6.1 · The Classification of Prevention Levels (Marc Jamoulle)
- · 6.2 · Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment and the Cascade Effect
- · 6.3 · Safe Deprescribing Strategies
- Management of the Complex Chronic Patient and Pluripathology
- · 7.1 · Complexity Stratification Models (Kaiser Permanente and CRG)
- · 7.2 · Pharmacological Reconciliation in Care Transitions
- · 7.3 · Case Management and Home Hospitalization
- Research Methodology in the Field of Family Medicine
- · 8.1 · Epistemological Peculiarities of Research in Primary Care
- · 8.2 · Specific Research Designs: Mixed Approach
- · 8.3 · Implementation Science (RE-AIM Framework)
- Quality, Audit and Indicators in Primary Care Clinical Management
- · 9.1 · The Donabedian Triad: Structure, Process and Result
- · 9.2 · The Continuous Improvement Cycle (Deming Cycle / PDCA)
- · 9.3 · Design of Key Clinical Indicators in Primary Care
- Community Health, Social Determinants and Family Guidance
- · 10.1 · The Social Gradient of Health and Inequity
- · 10.2 · Community Oriented Primary Care (APOC)
- · 10.3 · Health Assets and Social Prescription
- Pharmacopolitics, Prudent Prescription and Rational Use of Drugs
- · 11.1 · The Principles of Prudent Prescription in the Elderly
- · 11.2 · Pharmacopolitics and Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
- · 11.3 · Pharmacotherapeutic Reconciliation and Electronic Prescription Purification
- Approach to Mental Health and Psychosomatic Disorders in the Consultation
- · 12.1 · Prevalence and Challenge of Mental Health in Primary Care
- · 12.2 · Management of Hyperfrequent and Somatizing Patients
- Clinical Reasoning, Heuristics and Uncertainty in Family Medicine
- · 13.1 · Bayes' Theorem and Prevalence in Primary Care
- · 13.2 · Common Cognitive Biases in Primary Diagnosis
- · 13.3 · The Management of Uncertainty and Diagnosis over Time
- Management of Social Vulnerability, Violence and Abuse in Primary Care
- · 14.1 · The Role of the Family Physician as a Sentinel of Vulnerability
- · 14.2 · Socio-health Coordination and Social Work
- Home Palliative Care and Support at the End of Life
- · 15.1 · Control of Refractory Physical Symptoms
- · 15.2 · The Palliative Sedation Process at Home
- Teaching, Technology and Future Challenges of Family Medicine
- · 16.1 · Postgraduate Medical Training (The Residency Model)
- · 16.2 · Telemedicine and Technological Challenges
- · Key Principles of Modern Family Medicine
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- Subject
- Family Medicine
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 60
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02