Department of General Practitioner – 1

History of the department

The department was opened in 2007 at the UCSMU as the department "Polyclinic-2". On September 1, 2009, due to the reorganization of the academy, it was renamed the department "Polyclinic". In the 2012-2013 academic year due to the inclusion of courses in the department: emergency medical care, obstetrics and gynecology and the basics of life safety, the department was renamed the Department of Primary Health Care and the course of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2017, it was renamed the PHC-1 department. During the training of specialists "General practitioner", with the study at the Department of basic macro, microcycles of the internship level of the OP "General Medicine" and the discipline "Fundamentals of general medical practice" of the 5th year, the department has been renamed the department "General Practitioner-1" since April 2018.

Objectives of the department:
Training of the general practitioner capable to work in the system of the rendering primary health care and capable to bear responsibility for ensuring continuous medical care to each patient who has addressed for him/her taking into account features of his/her family, society in which he/she lives of his/her culture, irrespective of his/her age and gender and also the nature of his/her disease.

Disciplines were taught at the department:
• Emergency medical care,
• Obstetrics and gynecology,
• fundamentals of life safety;

Disciplines taught at the department:
Bachelor's level, 5th year - "Fundamentals of general medical practice" in Kazakh, Russian, English;

Internship level, 6th year:
• "Outpatient polyclinic pediatrics"
• "Outpatient therapy"
Component of choice:
• "Outpatient polyclinic cardiology"
• "Preventive pediatrics" ;

Internship level, 7th year:
• "Children's diseases in OVP"
• "Internal diseases in OVP"
Component of choice:
• "Geriatrics in OVP"
• "Extragenital pathology at the PHC level"
Disciplines are taught in Kazakh and Russian.

The educational and methodological complex of disciplines, materials of practical classes and control and measuring materials are reviewed and supplemented at the beginning of each new academic year.

Mission:
The mission of the “General Medicine” educational program (hereinafter referred to as EP) is to train competitive personnel providing medical care at the PHC level and ready for continuous professional development.
The mission of the EP is presented by the Committee for the General Medicine (CEP) educational program, discussed with employers at a round table in January 2018. The mission was introduced to department staff, students, interns, clinical base management and practical healthcare representatives.
The mission of the EP “General Medicine” is posted on the SKMA website https://skma.edu.kz/, in the organizational structure section (in the subsection Department of «General practioner-1»), at the stand of the dean’s office and at the chair of «General practionerr-1» of SKMA.
The medical organization of education should determine the mission of the educational program on the basis of considering the needs of public health, the needs of the medical care system and, accordingly, other aspects of social responsibility
EP “General Medicine” provides for bachelor and internship studies. The mission of the EP is developed taking into account the competencies of the graduate of the internship and the level of qualification in accordance with the industry qualifications framework.
During the developing the mission, the need for healthcare in medical personnel and the possibility of admitting an internship graduate to independent activities were taken into account. To date, graduates of the internship in the EP “General Medicine” can independently perform the functional duties of a general practitioner at the level of primary health care and provide emergency medical care

Scientific priorities of the department:
- Early diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents.

Currently, the following specialists work at the department: MD, Professor - 1, PhD, associate professor - 4, Masters of OS and Medicine - 6, as well as therapists, pediatricians with the highest category certified in GP.