title: Teaching multimorbidity management to GP trainees: a pilot workshop.
abstract: Multimorbidity, the presence of more than one chronic condition simultaneously, has a significant impact on people who experience it and on the healthcare system. General Practitioners (GPs) are ideally situated to provide the complex care required for someone whose health needs to cross the boundaries of individual specialties. It has been suggested that medical and postgraduate general practice education needs to adapt to address the new challenges of multimorbidity. We present an educational approach to the teaching of multimorbidity management in a postgraduate general practice training setting. We demonstrate that a workshop using simulated multimorbidity cases and facilitated by experienced GPs improves knowledge of and confidence in managing multimorbidity in primary care.
authors.affiliation: a Donegal Specialist Training Scheme in General Practice, Education Centre , St. Conal's Hospital , Letterkenny , Ireland.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maguire
authors.affiliation: a Donegal Specialist Training Scheme in General Practice, Education Centre , St. Conal's Hospital , Letterkenny , Ireland.
authors.forename: Karena
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hanley
authors.affiliation: a Donegal Specialist Training Scheme in General Practice, Education Centre , St. Conal's Hospital , Letterkenny , Ireland.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.affiliation: a Donegal Specialist Training Scheme in General Practice, Education Centre , St. Conal's Hospital , Letterkenny , Ireland.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sheeran
authors.affiliation: a Donegal Specialist Training Scheme in General Practice, Education Centre , St. Conal's Hospital , Letterkenny , Ireland.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D019468:Disease Management; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends; D058006:General Practice; D058005:General Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Chronic disease; general practice training; mulitmorbidity; workshop