Medical School Primary Care Academy

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What is The Primary Care Academy Track?

Swansea University Medical School’s Primary Care Academy track aims to provide the highest quality learning experience for students in primary care and community services, preparing our future doctors for the health requirements of patients, families and communities in the coming decades.

Background and Context

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More and more healthcare is now being provided outside hospitals, in the community close to or in patients' homes. For our future doctors, this will require additional skills in leadership and team-working, a holistic approach to patients, a better understanding of preventive health and improving wellbeing as well as diagnosing and treating disease.

With an ageing population, the number of patients with complex health conditions is increasing steadily, and doctors will need to develop 'expert generalist' skills that enable them to integrate knowledge of a variety of specialties so that patients are cared for as a 'whole' and not in a fragmented way.

About the Primary Care Academy Track

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Swansea University Medical School’s Primary Care Academy track aims to  provide the highest quality learning experience for students in primary care and community services, preparing our future doctors for the health requirements of patients, families and communities in the coming decades.

Supported by our local University Health Boards, the Primary Care Academy is delivered across local communities and supports multi-disciplinary learning and teaching through a community care lens, while allowing medical students to achieve the same learning outcomes as their peers on a secondary care placement track.

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