Concept of Patient Work in General Practice

This session aims to educate students about the work involved in being a patient, focusing on how patients manage their health independently. The content explores the challenges patients face beyond their interactions with healthcare professionals, emphasizing the various tasks and decisions patients undertake in seeking medical help.

• Patient Work
• General Practice
• Healthcare Education
• Patient Experience
• Understanding Health

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1. Family Medicine: The "work" of a patient Year 2 Centre for Medical Education General Practice Experience 2020/2021

2. Aim of session To introduce students to the concept of the work involved in being a patient.

3. Background The idea of this session is to help students understand how patients manage their health outside their brief encounters with health professionals Students will consider the challenges patients may face in this work

4. Part 1 - How does a patient work to manage their health? As a group you have ten minutes to detail and present in a timeline what a patient does when they feel they need to see a GP.

5. Part 1 - How does a patient work to manage their health? What might challenge this?

6. Part 1 - How does a patient work to manage their health? Research has given some examples of work that might not occur to us as health professionals Patient's internal negotiation when deciding to seek help The work of booking an appointment, The work of waiting in a waiting room, The work of trying to appear as a good patient

7. Part 2Hearing directly from a patient describing their work"

8. Aim of session To introduce students to the concept of the work involved in being a patient.