[Every doctor is a teacher].
The doctor plays a role of a teacher so as to help the patient to understand, integrate and take care of his illness in his own socio-professional context. As patient educator, the doctor will get to know the patient in his specific environment. He will then be able to teach the needed knowledge and competencies after checking what the patient knows already (patient's knowledge and representations) and what he needs to know. It will be useful to check what the patient has acquired as knowledge or competencies to favour its memorisation. The patient and the doctor will then be able to define together a common treatment and plan through concrete and realistic objectives that will be revised during the follow-up.
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Policlinique de médecine, Département de médecine communautaire, HUG, 1211 Genève 14. johanna.sommer@hcuge.ch
Junod Perron
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D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations