Diplôme d'Etudes Spécialisées en Médecine Générale

Objectives

The aim of the Diplôme d’Etudes Spécialisées en Médecine Générale is to:

• learn to identify the early stages of the disease and to differentiate between common pathologies and rarer diseases that may have a serious or fatal prognosis
• identify the individual problems of the patient
• carry out home visits and assess the psychosocial environment and integrate these notions into the handling of the patient
• acquire the ability to discard and select, and acquire the concepts of primary care medicine
• learn to handle situations requiring medical consultation and interdisciplinary management
• handle emergency situations and know how to initiate emergency care in an out-of-hospital setting
• learn the basic principles of supporting patients at the end of their lives
• propose patient-centred measures that improve the patient's health status
• acquire the necessary coordinating capacity/function of a General Practitioner and to learn to collaborate with existing social services
• learn to use medical techniques appropriately
• develop a critical reading of medical articles
• acquire the skills to optimise the doctor-patient relationship by favouring empathetic listening with patients, and by developing quality relationships with practitioners of other disciplines, paramedical professions and social workers.
• learn the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
• identify and deal with the specificities of primary care practice
• integrate any other functions specific to general practice
• identify the optimal medical decision taking into account evidence-based medicine, the physician's expertise and the patient's own needs and expectations.

Methods 

• tutorials in the form of theoretical courses
• seminar: discussion of clinical cases, role-playing, practical workshop
• simulation: learning of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• internship in the general practitioner's office:
  • getting to know the problems that arise in ambulatory medicine
  • implementing direct and/or indirect supervision during the internship