Identifying public health competencies relevant to family medicine.

ABSTRACT: Public health situations faced by family physicians and other primary care practitioners, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and more recently H1N1, have resulted in an increased interest to identify the public health competencies relevant to family medicine. At present there is no agreed-on set of public health competencies delineating the knowledge and skills that family physicians should possess to effectively face diverse public health challenges. Using a multi-staged, iterative process that included a detailed literature review, the authors developed a set of public health competencies relevant to primary care, identifying competencies relevant across four levels, from "post-MD" to "enhanced." Feedback from family medicine and public health educator-practitioners regardi

SUBMITTER: Harvey BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7126100 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature