India
“What I learned through the PRIME educational resources helped me to understand the difference between ethics - how you should behave - and values - why you should behave. This understanding about value-based education as part of medical education has been a paradigm shift in my view of being a medical educator.” Medical Educator, India
PRIME tutors continue to be involved in the contact phases of the Christian Medical College Vellore MMed Family Medicine programme coordinated by our colleagues at PRIME Australia. This course represents a unique opportunity for government doctors who have no access to postgraduate education, to do a course equivalent to other specialties. Their 'refer less, resolve more' initiative aims to help them gain confidence and competency to handle most patients by themselves. The first advertisement of the course for family medicine drew about 500 applications and it was very clear that this was a felt need amongst the General practitioners. The programme now takes place in eleven locations across the country and is now being co-led by local facilitators who have previously undertaken the programme themselves. This is a fantastic opportunity for PRIME to work with local colleagues to develop Family Medicine in a context that has national implications for the development of the speciality in India.