The exceptional potential in each primary care consultation.
A four-point framework is described which has been found to be helpful for general practitioners who try to achieve greater breadth in each consultation. The framework has also provided a useful stimulus in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, because it provides a nomenclature to identify four major components of clinical practice which are particularly relevant to primary care.
D008722:Methods; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*