Task-Oriented Processes in Care (TOPIC) Model in Ambulatory Care

TOPIC (Task-Oriented Process in Care) is a breakthrough new framework of learning and teaching in ambulatory care. The TOPIC model offers guidelines for optimizing a chronic illness visit, a check-up/preventive visit, a new problems visit, a psychosocial visit, or a visit where a behavior change is reccomended. The TOPIC guidelines work with any presenting problem and direct the practitioner to apply both the most current medical knowledge, and the most useful skills and attitude to each visit. This book offers instructors innovative and pracitcal ways to teach medical students and residents how to implement the TOPIC model. The accompanying CD-ROM contains essentail teaching handouts, PowerPoint slide sets, templates, scripts, evaluation form, video clips and more.Rogers, John C. is the author of 'Task-Oriented Processes in Care (TOPIC) Model in Ambulatory Care', published 2004 under ISBN 9780826124258 and ISBN 0826124259.