HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Medicine

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Ein Karem

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Dodo Bart
Dr. Atarah Juravel-Jaffe

Coordinator Email: nivdaviddex2@gmail.com; atarah.jaffe@gmail.com;

Coordinator Office Hours: by appointment

Teaching Staff:
daniel raday,
helene mendelson,
avi goldberg,
Dr. avigail argov,
avraham fridman,
adam balin,
orit tapet,
adrian arlich,
irena karni,
ela levin,
eliezer vaisman,
eleksander king,
emma safurni,
moran alkobi,
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efrat blumerzon,
gila nitay,
arkadi tzipovski,
ashraf karami,
baruch levit,
bat - sheva hershkovitz,
gideon lifshitz,
johnti Merski,
dvora radomsky,
dvora rozenblum,
david ramati,
david sheler,
duma ,
dima bitar,
daniel Youngerd,
hadas tzur,
vered heffes,
vered cohen naor,
ziv seser,
arin yechi,
hava harats,
cheftziba zer aviv,
tatyana pechyoni,
tal gizonterman,
tali haimsky,
talya cohen,
talya frenkel,
tasa manaim,
Dr. yan miskin,
yehudit halbershtat,
yuval barash,
Dr. yael ronen,
yael tapoohi armon,
itshak barash,
yakir aspir,
liat luwisch,
,
larisa shmulevitz,
lea mor,
muriel tandnik,
moriya tessler,
michael gimpel,
michael yoshfe,
michael kaufman,
michal cohen dedi,
michal shoam,
martina hammelborger,
maryan pizanta,
maria kaganov,
noam ofek,
nataly davidov,
nira eshel,
neomi freudenberger,
svetlana jorbel,
smadar avidan,
samiha aryan,
adi alkalay,
atar Grinfeld,
feda abu - kauder,
tamar altshuler,
tamar zemel,
tammy izak,
sharon silverman,
shalhevet roness,
shabtai brill,
rane Bishara,
rika turgeman,
reut klain,
rotem marek,
tzipi sabag,
keren jemal,
keren cohen nahum,
reuven dressler,
reuven zaritsky,
rivka laster,
rivka lashtz,
roni torten,
ronald ban,
chana meirovitz,
itzhak margolis,
michal yeshayauo,
michal poichtonger,
Dr. Aura Cohen,
Dr. Dodo Bart,
Dr. Brendon Stewart,
Prof. Amnon Lahad,
Dr. Amani Zaitar,
Dr. Andrew Manning,
Dr. Ruhama Lehmann-Weiss,
Prof. Israel Katz,
Dr. Yaarit Bodenheimer,
Dr. Yael Paldi,
Dr. Goldberg-Clein Tova,
Dr. Dan Rorman,
Dr. Dalit May,
Dr. more dalhia,
Dr. Dina Herbet-Toberman,
Dr. John Borowski,
Dr. Ariel Israel,
Dr. Tikva Armon,
Dr. atarah jaffe,
Dr. OFER Gantz,
Mr. Gal Oded,
Dr. Alexander Kiderman,
Dr. Neomi Weizer polak,
Dr. Naama Sadot,
Dr. Michal Ronen,
Dr. Mici Phillips,
Dr. Ruth Kannai,
Dr. Ohad Avny,
Dr. Efrat Schreiber,
Dr. Vered Obel Neaman,
Dr. Maya Moss Yishay,
abdalla hijazi,
daniel rein,
david vered,
yan mastislevski,
itamar bernshtein,
Ms. rivka hanhart,
nosan peri,
tatiana baivski,
lina kasem,
eleonora karsani,
isabella toledano,
michal lwow,
tzvi beninja,
tamar zemel,
Penina Pogoda,
or arad,
Ms. Eitan Lavan,
Dr. OMER YAISH,
Elisheva Zerm,
Aya Falach,
Tal Fuchs,
harvey woolf,
Nina Luvman,
Dr. Naamah Fraenkel,
Naomi Sofer,
Omer Rosenblum,
Barry Knishkowy,
rachel Schechtman,
eitan amitai,
yigal schwarzman,
Iyas Ashav,
Eitan Gluskin,
Avraham Schwartz,
Dr. Dror Ohana,
shay dvir,
Thaer Shehadeh,
Suha Mashni,
Hila Leiman,
Dr. Yehudit Medizinsky,
tsvi eytan,
Dr. ariel rozitzky,
Tamer Abdin,
Dr. marina goldin isserlis,
Shachar Ben chaim,
Dr. Dan Sela,
Benjamin Bentolila,
Nitzan Aviram,
dima bitar,
Ms. aya Cohen,
Dr. Adina Nissim,
Zeev Maresky,
Dr. Amalia Walzer,
Noam Gardin,
Dr. Rana Abu Ghannam,
Manal Muhareb,
Alex Goldstein,
Lital Shemesh Bar,
Sruli Weiss,
David Newman,
Miriam Livshin,
natali lerner,
Dr. Omer Yair

Course/Module description:
A clinical rotation in family practice clinics. The students will be exposed to primary care in the community and will recognize their place in the medical system as a whole. The students will become familiar with common morbidities in primary care and their acute and chronic management with a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach. The student will enhance their knowledge in preventive medicine and improve their communication skills.

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To review the priciples of family madicine and the characteristics of the primary care physician and team including:
* Continuing and long term relationship with the patient and family
* Caring for heterogenous populations
* Varied work environments and prevalence of medical conditions related to varied populations
* Multi-purpose medical appointments
* Graded diagnostic approach
* Opportunity for long term care
2. To become be familiar with' will understand, analyze and implement models in family medicine in a final assignment
3. To become familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases in the primary care setting
4.To implement a clinical approach to common symptomatology in the primary care setting
5. To perform follow up visits for chronic diseases
6. To develop an evidence based approach to preventive medicine and health advocacy and to provide concrete patient-tailored recommendations
7. To demonstrate proficiency in history taking, communication, physical examination, clinical reasoning and case management
8. To perform problem oriented history taking for common medical problems in primary care
9. To perform general and problem oriented physical examination
10. To complete training in physical examination necessary to treat common problems in primary care including the neurological examination, primary care orthopedics and otolaryngology
11. To review the essential role of the family physician in the healthcare system

Attendance requirements(%):
Full attendance of at least 25 clinical hours in the community clinic and full attendance in all the lectures and workshops.

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content:
Lifestyle medicine
Nutrition, general recommendations, diet types, disease-dependent recommendations
Physical activity, EBM recommendations
Sleep medicine
Obesity
Smoking cessation
Adult vaccinations, special populations (pulmonary disease, immune deficiency)

Screening tests
Colon cancer screening
Breast cancer screening
Osteoporosis screening
Prostate cancer screening
Cervical cancer screening

Acute disease
Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Acute Otitis Media
Otitis Externa
Pharyngitis
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Gastroenteritis
Urinary Tract Infection
Common rashes
Lower back pain
Fever in children
Sexually transmitted disease

Chronic disease
Hypertension
Diabetes
Ischemic heart disease – primary prevention (hyperlipidemia, aspirin treatment)
Ischemic heart disease – management of chronic disease
Congestive heart failure - management of chronic disease
COPD
Asthma
Approach to chronic pain
Palliative care / End of life care

Somatic disease / Psychiatry in the community setting
Irritable bowel syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Medically unexplained complaints – approach
Depression and anxiety

Approach to the family in crisis
Family medicine models

Clinical approach / symptomatology
Approach to abdominal pain
Approach to headache
Approach to fatigue and malaise
Approach to dizziness
Approach to common orthopedic problems in the clinic
Approach to chronic cough

Required Reading:
Syllabus - required reading

סילבוס – קריאה מומלצת

The complete list of required reading appears in official course site

Additional Reading Material:

Grading Scheme :
Written Exam % 30
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 20 %
Personal Guide / Tutor / Team Evaluation 50 %

Additional information: