Course: WISDOM - Tomorrow’s Doctor, Today: Supporting Today’s Expert Generalist GP

Finally, let’s return to Brian to find out how we can take on extended roles to help our teams best manage complex or co-morbid patients. We met Brian earlier in …

This course focuses on knowledge work. So we have to ask… what exactly is ‘knowledge work’? Does it mean we are like computers, meant to remember all the knowledge we …

Being under constant pressure in our everyday practice, it can be easy to overlook one of the most important resources that we have to manage complex health problems – the …

In the previous step we introduced the case of Omar, who has presented with a sensation of something being intermittently stuck at the back of his throat. As pathological causes …

We discussed earlier the problem of general practice being viewed as straightforward when those of us who work in the area usually find it anything but simple. But we have …

Using the example of Margaret we can see how sometimes seemingly removed piece of research – combined with biographical knowledge of a person and cultural knowledge of our local area …

Throug the previous weeks, you should now be able to conceptualise and apply the skills of knowledge work to develop this curiosity further. Now you need to consider, what are …

In the previous section, we considered how we can use our clinician scholarship skills to develop our own learning and implement change. Now we think about how we can share …

We have described how generalist clinicians implement and learn from change every time they work with patients to make sense of their condition, and so negotiate a treatment plan. This …

Narrative medicine Human beings are first and foremost storytellers. Telling stories is how we make sense of our lives and the world around us. As the philosopher Alistair McIntyre states: …

Now, Dr James Bennett gives us – an overview of how to explore using knowledge work skills in a wider GP career. How does the idea of expanding your knowledge …

In this video Johanna Reilly discusses the case study we read and commented on earlier.

Dr James Bennet gives you an introduction to what we will cover in Week 4 of the course. Please share any thoughts about what you expect from this week’s content …

Changing the context can change practice. We have mentioned relationship-based care and knowledge work and clinical scholarship. How do these things link together? Knowledge work help us not just with …

Let’s return to Omar’s case to illustrate how we can share our learning from challenging cases to help others develop their knowledge work skills. In the previous weeks we met …