 Family medicine and psychosocial knowledge: How many hats can the family doctor wear?Michael Gropper Social Science & Medicine, 1987, vol. 25, issue 11, 1249-1255 Abstract: The paper examines the impact of teaching family physicians psychosocial skills and knowledge during their residency training in family medicine. The idea put forth by the family practice profession that family physicians are trained to treat their patients' biological, as well as psychosocial problems, is important to the social work profession since social workers have had primary responsibility in treating patients' psychosocial problems in the health care arena in the United States from 1904 until now. In order to learn about the effect of adding psychosocial knowledge to the family practitioner's training curricula, the author conducted an exploratory and comparative study to see if family practitioners had any more psychosocial knowledge than other primary care physicians. No significant differences were found. Implications of the study for family medicine and social work, primary health care, and social/health policy are discussed. Keywords: family; practice; education; psychosocial; knowledge; social; work; primary; care (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:25:y:1987:i:11:p:1249-1255 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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