Topic:General practice
Welcome to the Wikiversity Department of General Practice.
Department description [edit]
The Department of General Practice is a Wikiversity content development project where participants create, organize and develop learning resources for general practice medicine.
General Practice, as it is known today, is considered by many as providing the initial level of health-care in most healthcare systems throughout the world. That is, if you have a non-emergency problem, you would go to your GP to get it looked at, and they would prescribe proper treatment. In cases where the treatment or detailed diagnosis of the problem is too complex, requires surgery or other resources, the GP may refer the patient to a Doctor trained in the required specialty (such as a General Surgeon, a Neurologist, a Cardiologist, etc.)
In most jurisdictions, a Doctor must now take 2-4 years of Medical Residency in Family Medicine or General Practice in order to practice as a GP, as they need internship training in several specialties. This additional breadth of training, together with an expectation to have reasonable competence in these areas, means that such training is no longer necessarily regarded as the fallback option for trainees.
The "topic" namespace contains pages that are for management and organization of small academic units at Wikiversity such as departments (see: Wikiversity:Topics).
Department news [edit]
- 23 August 2006 - Department founded!
Learning projects [edit]
See: Learning Projects and the Wikiversity:Learning model.
Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the learning project (learning projects are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing! We suggest the use of the learning project template (use "subst:Learning project boilerplate" on the new page, inside the double curved brackets {{}}).
Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.
Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing.
Select a descriptive name for each learning project.
Most GP's will spend a large portion of their time in office practices, in hospitals, or in Emergency Rooms, the latter being the least common. For some jurisdictions, having a community-based component to the practice is an important feature of the discipline. Once a GP has completed their Family Medicine or General Practice residency training, they will usually have to write a board-certified exam to get a licence to practice Family/General Medicine.
