title: [What should a surgeon know about family medicine?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Surgeons have only limited options from case-specific contacts to generate a comprehensive picture about family medicine as a discipline and the family practitioner with its specific issues and characteristics. Thus, the typical function of the family practitioner is often not sufficiently taken into account while aiming for a better cooperation: the primary care of "unselected reasons for encounter" with integration of bio-psycho-social aspects, long-term care, close distance contacts and low-threshold access. In addition, family practitioners and surgeons have different expectations regarding their cooperation, which are important to know and handle.
  
  
  METHODS
  A selective literature search was undertaken on the self-conception and professional functioning of family medicine as well as on mutual expectations to improve cooperation at the outpatient-inpatient interface.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgeons benefit from the knowledge on self-conception and functioning of family practitioners by using options and potentials for the reduction of problems at the outpatient-inpatient interface and for an optimised network.
authors: Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Deutschland.
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Lichte
authors: Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg A. ö. R., Magdeburg, Deutschland.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Meyer
authors: Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Deutschland.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Junge
authors: Sektion Allgemeinmedizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Deutschland.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Klement
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010346:Patient Care Management