An abridged explanation of the patient-centered clinical method as explained to a group of medical students by Dr Chidi Mbatuegwu (MBBS, DipCS, FMCFM).
An abridged explanation of the patient-centered clinical method as explained to a group of medical students by Dr Chidi Mbatuegwu (MBBS, DipCS, FMCFM).
An abridged explanation of the patient-centered clinical method as explained to a group of medical students by Dr Chidi Mbatuegwu (MBBS, DipCS, FMCFM).
An abridged explanation of the patient-centered clinical method as explained to a group of medical students by Dr Chidi Mbatuegwu (MBBS, DipCS, FMCFM).
Checking the dimensions of illness (feelings, ideas, effects on function and
expectations).
2. Understanding the whole person:
Looking into the person (e.g. life history, personal and developmental issues);
Inspecting the proximal context (e.g. family, employment, social support);
Inspecting the distal context (e.g. culture, community, ecosystem).
3. Finding common ground:
Determining the problems and priorities.
Establishing goals of treatment and/or management.
Defining the roles of the patient and the health care professionals.
4. Enhancing the patient-health care professionals‛ relationship:
Entertain compassion; Share power; Ensure healing; and Be self-aware (be alive to the concepts of transference and counter-transference). Relationships require time and continuity for:
5. Incorporating prevention and health promotion: health enhancement; risk
avoidance; risk reduction; early identification; and complication reduction.
6. Being realistic is important for growing this relationship, teambuilding and
teamwork. A pictorial of this discussion is as seen below:
