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A qualitative study of final-year medical students’ perspectives of general practitioners’ competencies

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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25665
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https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.4e79.b49a
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2011-09-23
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Journal article
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Peer reviewed

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Landstrøm, Bjørn; Mattsson, Bengt; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard
Abstract
Objectives: To investigate final-year medical students' perspectives of general practitioners' competencies. A further aim of the study was to investigate which type of clinical problems is properly managed by GPs according to students.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative study of 49 final year medical students from two programmes. Reflective writing statements were used to collect data. Qualitative content analysis was employed to analyse data.

Results: Three themes were identified to explain the conditions of a general practitioner (GP). They are: 'prerequisites', 'patients´ problems' and 'competence and clinical judgment' which reflect the specific features of primary care, presentation of symptoms by patient and the way that GPs approach an actual encounter.

Conclusions: The students valued the importance of unselected patient problems, straightforwardness in contact and care as the characteristics of a competent GP. They viewed patients with different approaches and related their observations to problems of fragmentation within this large area of medical care. This is a period in the training of students in which students' views of general practice are formed.

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IJME
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Landstrøm, Mattsson B, Rudebeck CE. A qualitative study of final-year medical students’ perspectives of general practitioners’ competencies. International Journal of Medical Education. 2011;2:102-109
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