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  • Healthcare Management
  • Sociology

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  • General practitioners (GPs) encounter complex medical and socio-economic patient problems.
  • Current understanding of GP approaches to these complexities is limited.
  • Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) methodology offers a framework to analyze GP practices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the methods expert GPs use to handle complex problems.
  • To understand how GPs adapt to their community context.
  • To apply CAS methodology to assess GPs' daily activities for professional development.

Main Methods:

  • Employed an interdisciplinary team-ethnographic research approach.
  • Conducted interviews with 62 healthcare professionals across nine facilities in Japan.
  • Utilized iterative analysis of field notes and interview data, with feedback from participating GPs.

Main Results:

  • Identified four key GP approaches: holistic patient care, building trusting relationships, fostering professional growth and learning climates, and sharing community vision.
  • Observed that these interactions systematized community healthcare and welfare networks.
  • Demonstrated GPs acting as catalysts for organizational change.

Conclusions:

  • Expert GPs develop interconnected systems within community health networks to adapt to changing social realities.
  • GP practices align with Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) principles.
  • Findings offer practical applications for GP professional development and practice.