Chapter 1: The nature, scope and content of general practice

Question 1

What is defined as that medical discipline which provides ‘community-based, continuing, comprehensive, preventive primary care’,

Answer 1

General practice

Question 2

What model is being followed by general practice?

Answer 2

CCCP model

Question 3

What are the other names of general practice?

Answer 3

primary care and family practice

Question 4

What are the five domains of general practice according to the RACGP?

Answer 4

1. communication skills and the doctor–patient
   relationship
2. applied professional knowledge and skills
3. population health and the context of general
   practice
4. professional and ethical role
5. organisational and legal dimensions

Question 5

What are the 7 core characteristics of general practice?

Answer 5

1 whole person care
2 person centredness
3 continuity of care
4 comprehensiveness
5 diagnostic and therapeutic skills
6 a command of complexity and uncertainty
7 coordinated clinical teamwork

Question 6

What are the 6 principles to achieve preventive and personal care?

Answer 6

primary care, family care, domiciliary care and continuing

care

Question 7

What are the principles of whole-person diagnosis?

Answer 7

1 the disease-centred diagnosis

2 the patient-centred diagnosis

Question 8

What are the top 4 complaints in Australia based on the third national survey of morbidity in general practice in Australia?

Answer 8

1. cough (6.2 per 100 encounters),
2. throat complaints (3.8 per 100),
3. back complaints (3.6 per 100) and
4. upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) (3.2 per 100).

Question 9

What are the Symptoms and conditions related to litigation?

Answer 9

• acute abdominal pain
• acute chest pain
• breast lumps
• children’s problems, especially the sick febrile
child <2 years, groin pain and lumps
• dyspnoea ± cough (? heart failure, cancer, TB)
• headache

Question 10

What are the top 5 commonly managed disorders?

Answer 10

1. General medical examination
2. Hypertension
3. URTI
4. Immunisation
5. Depression