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.

Keywords:

• Chronic disease
• general practice training
• mulitmorbidity
• workshop