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Models in General Practice

Models in General Practice Family Practice Vol. 4, No. 1 ©Oxford University Press 1987 Printed in Great Britain JOHN BARRAND General practice is a distinct discipline with its mental models of various disorders until a satis- own boundaries, knowledge and skills. This is factory match has been obtained. This modelling reflected in many ways. Examples include the takes place at all conceptual levels, models being difficulty that even highly trained specialists have constructed of individual diseases (for example in functioning well as general practitioners; the measles) or classes of diseases (for example viral American experience of losing almost all their diseases) or groupings of disorders (for example general practitioners and having to replace them medical, surgical, psychiatric). within a few years with 'family practitioners'; the A pyramidal hierarchy of conceptual models inclusion of departments of general practice in may be constructed, the higher the level, the many medical schools. more complex and inclusive the concepts and the Despite its distinctiveness the dimensions of broader and simpler the models. Each higher order model subsumes numbers of more detailed general practice have yet to be defined well ones. The apex of such a heirarchy is a single, enough to form the basis of training programmes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Practice Oxford University Press

Models in General Practice

BARRAND, JOHN
Family Practice , Volume 4 (1) – Mar 1, 1987
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Oxford University Press
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Family Practice Vol. 4, No. 1 ©Oxford University Press 1987 Printed in Great Britain JOHN BARRAND General practice is a distinct discipline with its mental models of various disorders until a satis- own boundaries, knowledge and skills. This is factory match has been obtained. This modelling reflected in many ways. Examples include the takes place at all conceptual levels, models being difficulty that even highly trained specialists have constructed of individual diseases (for example in functioning well as general practitioners; the measles) or classes of diseases (for example viral American experience of losing almost all their diseases) or groupings of disorders (for example general practitioners and having to replace them medical, surgical, psychiatric). within a few years with 'family practitioners'; the A pyramidal hierarchy of conceptual models inclusion of departments of general practice in may be constructed, the higher the level, the many medical schools. more complex and inclusive the concepts and the Despite its distinctiveness the dimensions of broader and simpler the models. Each higher order model subsumes numbers of more detailed general practice have yet to be defined well ones. The apex of such a heirarchy is a single, enough to form the basis of training programmes

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Published: Mar 1, 1987

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