European Journal of General Practice
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EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE Francesco Carelli To cite this article: Francesco Carelli (2014) EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE, European Journal of General Practice, 20:4, 343-343 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13814788.2014.969707
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The news section of the ‘European Journal of General Practice’ would like to inform on current issues in Primary Care, in collaboration with Wonca Europe and the networks of Wonca Europe. Send in your contributions to [email protected]. Your contribution should not exceed 650 words and should be headed by a short and catchy title.
News EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE THE EURACT PERFORMANCE AGENDA (EUPA) The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row, following the European definition of general practice/family medicine (Wonca Europe; 2002)—identifying six core competencies and 11 abilities every family doctor should master—and the EURACT Educational Agenda (2005), providing a framework for teaching the core competencies by setting learning aims and monitoring their achievement. Performance (in contrast to competence) is understood as the level of actual performance in clinical care and communication with patients in daily practice. Small groups of EURACT Council members from 40 European countries have discussed and developed EUPA over the years. EUPA is a general uniform basic agenda of performance elements for every GP masters in daily practice, applicable and adaptable to different countries with different systems. It deals with process and result of actual work in daily practice, not with a teaching/learning situation. EUPA discusses in depth the psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment. Case vignettes of abilities in GPs’ daily practice in every chapter, illustrate performance and its assessment. Common assessment tools are, e.g. workplace-based assessment by a peer, feedback from patients or staff and audit of medical records. EUPA can help to shape performance assessment activities locally in general practice/family medicine, e.g. in continuing professional development cycles, recertification/re-accreditation/licensing procedures, peer hospitation programmes or practice audit programmes in quality management. It can give orientation for selfassessment for reflective practitioners in their continuing professional development. EUPA encourages general practitioners to initialize performance agendas adapted to their national health system to strengthen further the role of general practice/family medicine in their country. EUPA was presented to the public for the first time at the 19th Wonca Europe Conference, on 5 July 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal, in a EURACT workshop by Stefan Wilm, Janko Kersnick, Francesco Carelli and Jan Degryse. The workshop will be available in a printed version and as an open access source. Groups were asked
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2014.969707
Francesco Carelli EURACT Council, Executive Board BME Committee Chair, University of Milan and Rome [email protected]
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to answer a series of questions and the plenary involved a request for one-word answers to these questions. Answers are summarized below: • Starting in your practice next Monday morning, how do you feel about being assessed? ‘Nervous, why me, anxious, terrible, irritated, afraid, hate, I will show them, that is OK, welcome, curious, lucky ’. • Who will assess you? ‘Peer-accredited, tutor or instructor, trainee, trainer, self, patient, medical director or staff, e.g. nurse’. • What assessment method? ‘Simulated patient, case review, medical record review, direct observation—sitting in, video’. • Who might be interested in the outcome of the assessment? ‘Self, patients, management, employer, regulator, managed care manager, quality control authority, government, insurer ’. • Who might pay for this assessment? ‘Pro bono, health organization, government, self ’. The participants were positive about the prospect of assessments as long as the process was a formative one and peer led.
News EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/MEDICINE
International EURACT course in Bled, Slovenia, 23–27 September 2014: The scope and limits of general family medicine The annual EURACT course for family medicine teachers at all levels will be held again at Bled in Slovenia, 23–27 September. This year ’s topic recognizes that Family Medicine is facing many challenges as our population ages and there is a drive to move more medical care into our communities. There are ever increasing demands for Family Doctors to take on new and wider responsibilities in diagnosis treatment, prevention, education and administration in addition to our traditional roles. Within the profession, there are some voices calling for a broader role for Family Doctors while others strive to set rational limits to the scope of the work. This course aims to address these issues. The course is aimed at educators in primary care who are involved in teaching at the university or practice level. It will be of interest to educators at all stages of their careers and will offer the opportunity to experience working in a small group of peers from across Europe. The course takes place over 4.5 days. Each day starts with a plenary session, which consists of a plenary lecture on one aspect of the course theme. The rest of the day is spent in small groups during which the participants will have the opportunity to explore the theme in greater depth. A highlight of the course is the opportunity provided by Bled Health Centre to visit patients in their homes. Each group will produce a teaching module by the end of the week, which participants can then take back with them to their own setting. Feedback from the Bled course has been consistently positive. The combination of the course content and an active social programme makes for a refreshing and interesting week. The course details can be found at: http://www.bled-course.org
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2014.933315
Jo Buchanan National Representative & Council Member United Kingdom [email protected]
ISSN: 1381-4788 (Print) 1751-1402 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/igen20
EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE Francesco Carelli To cite this article: Francesco Carelli (2014) EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE, European Journal of General Practice, 20:4, 343-343 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13814788.2014.969707
Published online: 03 Nov 2014.
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Date: 12 November 2015, At: 03:58
European Journal of General Practice, 2014; 20: 343–349
NEWS & AGENDA
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The news section of the ‘European Journal of General Practice’ would like to inform on current issues in Primary Care, in collaboration with Wonca Europe and the networks of Wonca Europe. Send in your contributions to [email protected]. Your contribution should not exceed 650 words and should be headed by a short and catchy title.
News EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE THE EURACT PERFORMANCE AGENDA (EUPA) The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row, following the European definition of general practice/family medicine (Wonca Europe; 2002)—identifying six core competencies and 11 abilities every family doctor should master—and the EURACT Educational Agenda (2005), providing a framework for teaching the core competencies by setting learning aims and monitoring their achievement. Performance (in contrast to competence) is understood as the level of actual performance in clinical care and communication with patients in daily practice. Small groups of EURACT Council members from 40 European countries have discussed and developed EUPA over the years. EUPA is a general uniform basic agenda of performance elements for every GP masters in daily practice, applicable and adaptable to different countries with different systems. It deals with process and result of actual work in daily practice, not with a teaching/learning situation. EUPA discusses in depth the psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment. Case vignettes of abilities in GPs’ daily practice in every chapter, illustrate performance and its assessment. Common assessment tools are, e.g. workplace-based assessment by a peer, feedback from patients or staff and audit of medical records. EUPA can help to shape performance assessment activities locally in general practice/family medicine, e.g. in continuing professional development cycles, recertification/re-accreditation/licensing procedures, peer hospitation programmes or practice audit programmes in quality management. It can give orientation for selfassessment for reflective practitioners in their continuing professional development. EUPA encourages general practitioners to initialize performance agendas adapted to their national health system to strengthen further the role of general practice/family medicine in their country. EUPA was presented to the public for the first time at the 19th Wonca Europe Conference, on 5 July 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal, in a EURACT workshop by Stefan Wilm, Janko Kersnick, Francesco Carelli and Jan Degryse. The workshop will be available in a printed version and as an open access source. Groups were asked
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2014.969707
Francesco Carelli EURACT Council, Executive Board BME Committee Chair, University of Milan and Rome [email protected]
344
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to answer a series of questions and the plenary involved a request for one-word answers to these questions. Answers are summarized below: • Starting in your practice next Monday morning, how do you feel about being assessed? ‘Nervous, why me, anxious, terrible, irritated, afraid, hate, I will show them, that is OK, welcome, curious, lucky ’. • Who will assess you? ‘Peer-accredited, tutor or instructor, trainee, trainer, self, patient, medical director or staff, e.g. nurse’. • What assessment method? ‘Simulated patient, case review, medical record review, direct observation—sitting in, video’. • Who might be interested in the outcome of the assessment? ‘Self, patients, management, employer, regulator, managed care manager, quality control authority, government, insurer ’. • Who might pay for this assessment? ‘Pro bono, health organization, government, self ’. The participants were positive about the prospect of assessments as long as the process was a formative one and peer led.
News EURACT: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/MEDICINE
International EURACT course in Bled, Slovenia, 23–27 September 2014: The scope and limits of general family medicine The annual EURACT course for family medicine teachers at all levels will be held again at Bled in Slovenia, 23–27 September. This year ’s topic recognizes that Family Medicine is facing many challenges as our population ages and there is a drive to move more medical care into our communities. There are ever increasing demands for Family Doctors to take on new and wider responsibilities in diagnosis treatment, prevention, education and administration in addition to our traditional roles. Within the profession, there are some voices calling for a broader role for Family Doctors while others strive to set rational limits to the scope of the work. This course aims to address these issues. The course is aimed at educators in primary care who are involved in teaching at the university or practice level. It will be of interest to educators at all stages of their careers and will offer the opportunity to experience working in a small group of peers from across Europe. The course takes place over 4.5 days. Each day starts with a plenary session, which consists of a plenary lecture on one aspect of the course theme. The rest of the day is spent in small groups during which the participants will have the opportunity to explore the theme in greater depth. A highlight of the course is the opportunity provided by Bled Health Centre to visit patients in their homes. Each group will produce a teaching module by the end of the week, which participants can then take back with them to their own setting. Feedback from the Bled course has been consistently positive. The combination of the course content and an active social programme makes for a refreshing and interesting week. The course details can be found at: http://www.bled-course.org
ISSN 1381-4788 print/ISSN 1751-1402 online © 2014 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13814788.2014.933315
Jo Buchanan National Representative & Council Member United Kingdom [email protected]
