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Department of Primary Medical Care

Department

Our Department is part of the Center for Psychosocial Medicine. Research focuses on topics relating to primary care, particularly in the areas of dementia, multimorbidity and chronic disease. The primary field of interest is home medical care.
The courses taught cover the areas of primary care medicine, healthcare economy/healthcare system, introductory clinical medicine as well as the occupational field. The Department is also very active in the advanced training of primary care specialists and the continuing education of general practitioners in Hamburg.

Research

The Department's research projects are grouped in the following areas:

• Cognitive disorders and dementia: Can development of dementia be predicted?
• Chronic disease and multimorbidity: How does the presence of several chronic diseases in a patient affect his/her quality of life?
• New forms of primary care: Will the Diabetes Disease Management Program bring an improvement in quality of care?
• Careers in the healthcare system: How do the careers of medical graduates proceed after licensing to practice medicine? How do doctors and other professionals cooperate in the healthcare system?
• Training, advanced training and continuing education: Can simulated "patients" be used successfully to train medical students?

Teaching and Continuing Education

Courses and training required for licensing of medical doctors cover the following areas:

• Survey of the occupational field
• Introduction to clinical medicine
• Courses in primary care medicine
• Three-month rotation in primary care medicine as part of the internship year
• Overlap healthcare economy/healthcare system

We regularly give continuing education courses for 80 general practitioners with a lectureship.
Our department is actively involved in advanced training of specialists in primary care medicine.
As part of the "General Practitioner Continuing Education Hamburg" consortium, we are responsible for the didactic design and evaluation of continuing education for general practitioners.

Department Statistics

More than 20 scientists and eight non-scientists as well as a varying number of student assistants and doctoral students work in our department.