Assessment of General Practitioners' Performance in Daily Practice: The EURACT Performance Agenda of General Practice/Family Medicine

book: Assessment of General Practitioners' Performance in Daily Practice

Open Access Published by düsseldorf university press 2014

Assessment of General Practitioners' Performance in Daily Practice

The EURACT Performance Agenda of General Practice/Family Medicine

Edited by: Stefan Wilm

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720105

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About this book

The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row following the European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine (WONCA Europe) in 2002 which identified 6 core competencies and 11 abilities every general practitioner (GP) should master, and the EURACT Educational Agenda in 2005 which provided a framework to teach the core competencies by setting learning aims and monitoring their achievement. Performance (in contrast to competence) is understood as the level of actual performance in clinical care and communication with patients in daily practice. Small groups of EURACT Council members from 40 European countries have discussed and developed EUPA since 2007. EUPA is a general, uniform and basic agenda of performance elements every GP masters in daily practice, applicable and adaptable to different countries with different systems. It deals with the process and result of actual work in daily practice, not with a teaching/learning situation. EUPA discusses in depth the psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment. Case vignettes of abilities in GPs’ daily practice illustrate performance and its assessment in every chapter. Examples of common assessment tools are workplace-based assessment by a peer, feedback from patients or staff and audit of medical records. EUPA can help to shape various performance assessment activities held locally in general practice/family medicine, e. g. in continuing professional development cycles, re-certification/re-accreditation/licensing procedures, peer hospitation programmes and practice audit programmes in quality management. It can give orientation for self-assessment for reflective practitioners in their continuing professional development. The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) encourages general practitioners to initialize performance agendas adapted to their national health system to further strengthen the role of general practice/family medicine in their country.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
About EURACT Open Access Download PDF	5
Contents Open Access Download PDF	7
1 Executive summary: Introduction to the EURACT Performance Agenda Stefan Wilm Open Access Download PDF	9
2 Overview of the six core competencies Open Access Download PDF	17
3 The relation of performance assessment to quality management Janko Kersnik and Zalika Klemenc-Ketis Open Access Download PDF	21
4 The psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment Jean-Marie Degryse, Valéry Dory and Cees P. M. Van der Vleuten Open Access Download PDF	23
5 Primary care management Jean-Marie Degryse, Ruth Kalda, Roar Maagaard, Phil Phylaktou, Howard Tandeter, Peter Vajer, Yvonne van Leeuwen and Natalia Zarbailov Open Access Download PDF	39
6 Person-centred care Okay Basak, Elena Frolova, Sandra Gintere, Filipe Gomes, Eva Jurgova, Monica Lindh, Markku Timonen and Adam Windak Open Access Download PDF	47
7 Specific problem solving skills Mette Brekke, Bernard Gay, Givi Javashvili, Janko Kersnik, Razvan Miftode, Maryna Oliynik and Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic Open Access Download PDF	57
8 Comprehensive approach Owen Clarke, Natasa Pilipovic Broceta, Smiljka Radic, Mario R. Sammut and Stefan Wilm Open Access Download PDF	65
9 Community orientation Dolores Forés, Roger Price, Llukan Rrumbullaku, Alma Eir Svavarsdottir, Paula Vainiomäki and Egle Zebiene Open Access Download PDF	71
10 Holistic approach Francesco Carelli, Georgi Ivanov, Bernhard Rindlisbacher, George Spatharakis and Wolfgang Spiegel Open Access Download PDF	73
11 Glossary of terms and key assessment methods Open Access Download PDF	79
12 References Open Access Download PDF	93

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