Health Professional Education and Primary Health Care

Dear Colleagues,

Health professional education is an important topic in relation to the improvement of primary care in many countries. For example, new models of general practice are emerging, such as expert generalist practices and expert medical generalists. In some countries, the clinical tasks of primary care are shared with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

To promote general practice in the undergraduate community, longitudinal integrated clerkship and community-based interprofessional education programmes have been proposed as new types of education practices.

In this Special Issue on the theme of medical education and primary care, we would like to summarize the latest information on how to teach the principles that are important for primary care in depth.

Dr. Hirotaka Onishi
Guest Editor

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