How to Make and Keep a Good Doctor. A Global Perspective on Medical Education.

 A healthy nation depends on a good medical system staffed by a good and competent doctors and nurses who work together effectively  for the good of the patient. This is in turn determined by effective training of healthcare workers  who are fit for purpose and who really want to heal and make the patient a whole person.

So how do you do that and what kind of a doctor or nurse do we need to do this job? What does he or she need to know, to do and to be to fulfil the new and demanding role of being a modern healthcare worker, caring for the rich and the poor, the happy and the sad, the joyful and the mourners, the supported and the vulnerable, the loved and the unloved persons of our varied societies? 

Medicine has changed over time there has always been a dualism of purpose, to fix the body and ignore the mind and soul, to please the rich and ignore the poor, to please the managers and ignore the patient, to make money and ignore the less lucrative jobs.

Healthcare is changing worldwide, so what are the challenges are for new doctors today?

We will  take a look at what “Whole Person Medicine” is and how or if medical training today produces the right  sort of doctor.  We will look at some global healthcare issues in relation to medical education,  using examples of change for the better that PRIME is involved in from around the world.

Finally we will look at what the challenges are for you in your medical system and how can you be an agent for change to improve the health of your nation.

You can make a difference. This session will be interactive and include discussion, consultations, talks and exercises to join in with. 

Finish your conference with a flourish  and plan how to be a really good doctor.

Information about the speaker:

Dr Ros Simpson, BM, DFFP, DRCOG, Dip Med Educ. MRCGP.

 Senior Clinical Teacher, Southampton University Medical  School, UK.

General Practitioner, and

PRIME Area Director for Romania and Bulgaria.

I am a British GP and a University Teacher. I teach students in the medical school about general practice and communication and clinical skills. I teach GP teachers how to teach and work half time in a busy city General Practice. I have been in my family practice for 20 years and work with my husband Roly and we have 4600 patients on our list. British General Practice is tough and changing these days with many targets and government regulations and rules. We fight hard to maintain a caring family practice where the patient matters and we have time to listen. We aim to treat everyone equally and fairly and enjoy the respect of our patients for this.

I work for PRIME to help  to bring this caring compassionate attitude into  medicine in Romania which I do by sharing my experience, and facilitating people in the conferences to understand how things can be different and work to effect change that will make a difference to patient care in Romania and improve medical standards of CARE.

I have 3 children aged 18 21 and 23 y old . They study drama and nightlife, my daughter Sophie, Snowboarding and cooking,  my son Graham  in Canada, and Engineering and working to support students ,my son Matt.

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