title: [Teaching practice recommendations: prevention and screening].
abstract: The aim of this article is to provide guidance to family doctors on how to tutor students about effective screening and primary prevention. Family doctors know their patients and adapt national and international guidelines to their specific context, risk profile, sex and age as well as to the prevalence of the disorders under consideration. Three cases are presented to illustrate guideline use according to the level of evidence (for a 19-year-old man, a 60-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old man). A particular strength of family medicine is that doctors see their patients over the years. Thus they can progressively go through the various prevention strategies, screening, counselling and immunisation, accompanying their patients with precious advice for their health throughout their lifetime.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cornuz
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goeldlin
authors.forename: Dagmar M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Haller
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Humair
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rosemann
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tschudi
authors.forename: Lilli
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Herzig
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D013663:Teaching; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult