Emphases in Patient Care
The IfA has no duties in patient care.
Emphases in Research
As a clinical-generalist discipline, family medicine serves as a fertile ground for a variety of distinct areas of research, addressing a great number of health problems. Questions of direct implications and immediate relevance for practice are of utter importance and constitute the main focus of the Institute of Family Medicine. Institutional research is being conducted in the following main fields:
eHealth and telemedicine
Future care of chronically ill patients
Education and (postgraduate) training research
Strategies against physician shortage
Emphases in Education
The education and teaching of the multitude of various subjects within the area of family medicine is built upon conveying not only the specific characteristics, properties and complexity of general practice but also the pleasure that may come along with practicing in this discipline.
Requirements:
Seminar and 14d hands-on training in general practice.
Geriactrics
Medical sociology
Complementary medicine
Final year elective:
12 week rotation in general practice
Optional electives:
Complementary and integrative medicine
Rural & Remote Care
Practice management for health care professionals
Legal implications of working as a physician
Sociology of health
Clinical reasoning for frequent reasons for encounter
Education engagement in other courses of studies/interprofessional education Bachelor’s Programme Occupational Therapy / Speech and Language Therapy, Bachelor’s Programme in Mid-wifery, Bachelor’s Programme in Nursing and Master´s program in Health and Healthcare Science.
Additional Information/Services
The IfA is member of the “Center for Open Innovation in Connected Health“ (COPICOH)” and the Center for Community Medicine and Health services research (ZBV) of the University of Lübeck
Dr. Jost Steinhäuser is the deputy head of medical education at the University of Lübeck.
Institute of Family Medicine (IfA)
Director
Prof. Dr. med. Jost Steinhäuser
Contact
UKSH International
Phone Lübeck: +49 451 500-10735
e-mail international@uksh.de