Family medicine is “a health system, where primary care is the
backbone and family doctors are the bedrock, delivers the best health
outcomes, at the lowest cost, and with the greatest user satisfaction
Course At A Glance
- Course: Fellowship in Family Medicine
- Total Duration: 1 year
- Hours per Week: 4 – 8
- Medium of instruction: English
About the Course
“There are 57 different specialists to diagnose and treat 57
different varieties of diseases, but no physician to take care of the
patient” – so very aptly said by one physician, when asked to comment on
the decline in the number of family doctors. Changing trend towards
specialization has fragmented the patient care today so much that it has
weakened the patient-physician relationship and thereupon the public
outcry over the fragmented medical care gave re-birth to the dying
speciality of ‘Family Medicine’. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of
the World Health Organization endorses Primary care as our best hope for
the future. Family doctors are our “Rising stars for the future”.
Propelled by such emphatic endorsement of the concepts of primary
care by the World Health Organisation, IMA eVarsity Courses is launching
its flagship course, the two-year Diploma in Family Medicine, with the
combined experiences of IMA eVarsity running the course in ‘chalk and
board’ distance education for nearly a decade or so and Medisys nearly 2
decades into the field of virtual education.
General practitioners of today are not in the mold of a typical
family physician. Though they see a large variety of problems that
affect the population, they are generally ill-equipped to manage them.
IMA eVarsity shall impart general practitioners of today with necessary
disease management skills through scientifically-designed,
pedagogically-grounded courses, with experiential learning forming the
fulcrum.
The IMA eVarsity courses are a rich amalgamation of the best models
of education in the contemporary scene, comprising online study blended
with webcasting and mannequin-based as well as bedside clinical
trainings. They take off from the famed competency assessment tool of
Case-based discussion, as promoted by reputed Universities from across
the globe in carving out family physicians.
