Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine

The qualification provides a distance-based opportunity for medical practitioners to upgrade their knowledge and skills in select areas relevant to their practice in the field of Family Medicine to improve the quality of care they provide to their patients.

Matriculation certificate

First degree: M B Ch B or equivalent

Diploma in Family Medicine

Learning outcomes

Apply the principles of Family Medicine to everyday generalist medical practice.

Understand the philosophy of Family Medicine and how it can be applied to medical practice.

Take cognisance of the family context of problems presenting in practice.

Apply emergency primary care theory to presenting problems.

Apply sound practice management principles.

Critical cross-field outcomes

• Identifying and solving problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made.
• Organising and managing oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively.
• Collecting, analysing and organising information.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation.
• To make an individual aware of the importance of:
• reflecting on and exploring a variety of strategies to learn more effectively
• being culturally and aesthetically sensitive across a range of social contexts

Demonstrate understanding of principles of Family Medicine and their application in practice

Understand and apply the philosophies of Family Medicine to patient scenarios

Apply the theories of family-centred care to patient scenarios

Apply the principles of basic and advanced life support to patient scenarios.

Demonstrate an understanding of practice management principles by solving practice-based problems.

Integrated assessment

Written examinations