Competencies of family medicine in Korea
| Core and Sub competencies of family medicine in Korea | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Core competency | Contents | Sub competency | Contents |
| Family medicine expert | Family medicine doctors must have a skilled physician’s ability to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care on the basis of trust to patients and their families. It is necessary to have the ability to apply medical knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes in the clinical setting through first contact with the patient, and to use various medical systems centered on the patient in the community and to cooperate with other specialists. | Continuity | Fully understand and grasp the patient and the patient’s situation through continuous patient-physician relationships. |
| Integration | Recognizes various diseases in an integrated way, makes an accurate diagnosis, and designs an optimal treatment plan. | ||
| Comprehensive | Diagnose, treat, or manage a wide range of symptoms and diseases common to the community. | ||
| Efficient | Avoid unnecessary consumption of medical resources and aim for the most effective treatment. | ||
| Community oriented care | Competence to play a central role in community health care. | ||
| Customized patient care | Diagnose, treat, and manage diseases through a broad understanding of the individual patient’s overall symptoms and a multi-pronged approach. | ||
| Disease prevention | Strive to promote the health of individuals and communities at risk for disease in order to prevent the occurrence of disease. | ||
| Evidence based patient care | Family medicine doctors must have the ability to interpret information obtained from medical history listening and physical examinations, establish appropriate treatment plans based on current medical knowledge, apply them to patient care, and constantly acquire knowledge about continuously developing biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social behavioral sciences. Furthermore, it is necessary to have the ability to create knowledge and devote itself to the role of dissemination, application, and transformation. | Patient-centered care | Provide care that respects and responds to the preferences, needs and values of individual patients. |
| Evidence-based care | Provide the best care to patients based on appropriate scientific evidence in clinical decision-making. | ||
| Safety-centered care | Make efforts to prevent any harm that may occur to patients | ||
| Professional clinical performance | Maintaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to perform medical practices up to date and providing the best care to patients. | ||
| Critical health literacy | Have the ability to critically analyze and utilize a variety of medical information. | ||
| Self-directed learning | Continuously conduct self-directed learning based on evidence-based medicine for representative diseases of the community. | ||
| Communication and collaboration | Family medicine doctors must have the ability to form a desirable doctor-patient relationship and coordinate various dynamic changes that may occur during treatment. In order to provide the best patient care, they should be able to work closely with patients, families, medical systems, other medical staff, communities, etc. and play a key role as a manager of the team’s approach to patient care. | Communication in healthcare | Provide optimal treatment based on mutual trust, respect and communication as a team leader for patients, families, medical staff, and local communities. |
| Trust-based care (trust in care) | Treat patients for the best interests and provide thoughtful means of treatment based on effective communication, professionalism, kindness and empathy. | ||
| Respect the patient’s intent | Respect the patient’s right to self-determination in clinical decision-making. | ||
| Professionalism | Family medicine physicians must have the ability to devote themselves to the health and well-being of individuals and society by adhering to practice ethics, with a high degree of professional consciousness, and by adhering to standards of discipline and conduct. | Compliance with physician ethics | Observe the duties of doctors, respect the rights of patients and provide the best care. |
| Expert-led self-correction ability | Try to take initiative and autonomously correct problems with your and colleagues’ medical practices as a professional. | ||
| Humanism and cultural understanding | Respect patients as human beings with character and dignity, and conduct research for the development of culturally competent knowledge and skills. | ||
| Maintaining mental, physical, emotional health | Try to maintain mental, physical, and emotional health as an professional in managing the health of a patient. | ||