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A ’Family Physician’ is a multi-competent specialist who not only provides the point of first contact for patients with ordinary ailments, but also provides the continuum of care. Family Medicine programme is given due importance in the developed countries, but the number of ’Family Physicians’ in the Indian sub-continent is grossly inadequate to cater to the huge population. The need of the hour is to empower the general practitioners to handle with confidence more cases than they do at present, thereby improving the quality of general medical practice in our country in terms of the professional competency, ethical practice and value awareness and public health awareness of the GP’s. Undoubtedly the best method to achieve this goal is through Continuing Medical Education in the Distance Education mode. It is encouraging to note that at least a beginning in this direction has been taken by the Department of Distance Education. Christian Medical College, Vellore by starting a Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine Programme. The first batch of nearly 200 students from various parts of the country has found the course to be very useful to pursue their career with added efficiency. The PGDFM programme is a ’rigorous’ programme involving all the different methods of pedagogy: Problem-based Interactive Course Materials: The contents of the 12 course books are interactive in nature with well illustrated case presentations, and are reader-friendly. Utmost care is taken to maintain very high print and binding quality. Candidates have to complete the assignments given at the end of each module and send it to the department for evaluation. Contact Classes & Regional Study Centres: Every candidate is expected to attend 52 days – split into 6 sessions of 10or 6 days pre session – of contact classes during the course. These contact classes are held in Regional Study Centres spread over the country. Facilitators guide the candidates through the examination and discussion of 3 long cases and 2 short cases of patients that come for consultation. The study will incorporate clinical knowledge and skills as well as instructions on beside manners. Candidates maintain a log book on the cases discussed. Candidates are shown two video-lectures per day. These lectures are delivered by expert faculty of C.M.C., Vellore. At the end of the presentations, candidates will attend a live tele-conferencing session where all the study centres are connected. Their questions are answered over the air, by the expert CMC faculty who prepared the lectures. Candidates will take their examinations on the last two days of the 3rd and 6th contact sessions.In addition to the above, each candidate will have to prepare one project dissertation that will require them to research aspects of ethics, public health or any administrative aspect of family medicine. It is envisaged that anyone who is motivated and goes through the above programme will end up being a first rate Family Medicine Specialist.
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