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What does the future hold for general medicine?

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Jenkins, PF and Thompson, CH and MacDonald, AB, What does the future hold for general medicine?, Medical Journal of Australia, 195, (1) pp. 49-50. ISSN 0025-729X (2011) [Letter or Note in Journal]

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Official URL: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2011/195/1/what-doe...

DOI: doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03192.x

Abstract

• General medicine is being challenged by increasing numbers of patients who are presenting with multiple comorbidities and a decline in numbers of suitably trained personnel to manage these patients.

• A resurgence in generalist care, with collaboration between generalists and specialists, is the key to successfully managing patients who present with acute medical conditions.

• Better funded collaborative training programs for general physicians, which promote a diversity of skills and address clinical demand in a proscriptive manner, are needed.

• Research aimed at designing acute services to match local clinical demand is also required.

Item Details

Item Type:Letter or Note in Journal
Keywords:acute medicine, Australia, biomedicine, clinical competence, clinical protocol
Research Division:Health Sciences
Research Group:Health services and systems
Research Field:Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:Health
Objective Group:Other health
Objective Field:Other health not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:MacDonald, AB (Dr Alasdair MacDonald)
ID Code:119282
Year Published:2011
Web of Science® Times Cited:11
Deposited By:Medicine
Deposited On:2017-07-28
Last Modified:2018-01-19
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