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Family medicine training by distance education
P Williams-Green1, A Matthews, T Paul
1Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. pauline.williamsgreen@uwimona.edu.jm
Abstract:
A postgraduate programme is developed to provide Family Medicine training to practising General Practitioners. The programme provides physicians with didactic material by distance education while enhancing clinical competence through face-to-face sessions in ambulatory clinics. Assessment of participating physicians is based on the responses to distance education assignments, case presentations during clinical sessions, clinical examinations at the end of year 2 and the defense of a research project in year 3. Initial programme evaluations demonstrate that the distance education format is successfully incorporated in the discipline of Family Medicine postgraduate training.
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