Learning and teaching about the impact of medicalisation in General Practice/Family Medicine

18th INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE

in Bled, Slovenia: September 29th – October 3rd, 2009

Learning and teaching about the impact of medicalisation in General Practice/Family Medicine

Course Directors:
Manfred Maier (Austria)
Jaime Correia de Sousa (Portugal)
Yonah Yaphe (Israel)
Justin Allen (Great Britain)
Janko Kersnik (Slovenia)
Marija Petek-Ster (Slovenia)

AIMS OF THE COURSE
The course is aiming at educators in primary care which are involved in teaching at university or practice level.

After the course the participants should
- Know what is medicalisation
- Understand the reasons for medicalisation
- Know about medicalisation of the start to the end of life
- Accept different statements of physicians to the medicalisation
- Appreciate pharmacist’ perspective on medicalisation
- Value of patients perspective to the medicalisation
- Recognize, that medical students and trainees should learn about medicalisation

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