Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Specific problem solving skills include the ability:• To relate specific decision making processes to the prevalence and incidence of illness in the community; • To selectively gather and interpret information from history-taking, physical examination, and investigations and apply it to an appropriate management plan in collaboration with the patient; • To adopt appropriate working principles, e. g. incremental investigation, using time as a tool and to tolerate uncertainty; • To intervene urgently when necessary; • To manage conditions which may present early and in an undifferentiated way; • To make effective and efficient use of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3176183029