Appreciation of the holistic approach to patient care and management.
Effect of demographic, social, family, environmental, psychological and emotional factors in disease.
Role of the family in patient care.
The terminally ill patient and pain relief in terminal disease, counselling a patient and family in case of cancer, HIV, non-curable neurological disease etc.
Resuscitation of a patient.
Decision making in unresuscitable patients, stopping life support.
Advanced skills in determining the differential diagnoses from all available information (history, examination, and investigations).
This includes syndromes in clinical medicine, improved understanding of medical conditions with their tendencies to multi-system presentation and a general understanding of world-wide disease epidemiology.
