[Skills from General Practice Applied to Polydisciplinary Medical Assessments]

Skills from General Practice Applied to Polydisciplinary Medical Assessments Abstract. In Switzerland, the case leader plays a central role in the polydisciplinary medical assessment performed by disability and accident insurances. Until now, a specialist in general internal medicine has been involved in every polydisciplinary assessment. Medical generalists are well suited to take on the role of case leaders due to their clinical activities in day-to-day care. A separate "case leadership" module in medical assessment training could standardize the heterogeneous facets of case leadership, convey specific responsibilities in the polydisciplinary process, and thus sharpen the task profile. This will enable the case leader to uniformly implement the legal expectations for quality assurance.