The medical continuing training for the GP practice is based in Leiden and on the Health Campus. From either location, you, as a postgraduate student/research trainee (AIOS), can follow the same programme.
The establishment of the GP programme on Health Campus The Hague presents you with the opportunity to focus maximally on the development of competences in the area of regional, community-based, and population-based partnerships. Diversity and relatively large differences in health outcomes in and between communities in The Hague dictate specific requirements for primary care, and thus for future professional practitioners in health. The location in The Hague also offers growth potential because this is an area that will need to train more
The medical continuing training for the GP practice is based in Leiden and on the LUMC Campus in The Hague. From either location, you can follow the same training programme.
LUMC’s GP training programme is a three-year programme. The teaching programme supports learning and practice, by which AIOSs are trained in making the competences of the GP their own. In the first year of the programme, an AIOS works and trains in a practice under the supervision of a GP trainer. The second year is an internship period at other locations, which may be the urgent care division of a hospital, a mental health care facility, or a nursing home. The AIOS then returns to work in a GP practice. From the start of the programme, but particularly in the second half, specific emphasis is placed on the local character of Leiden and The Hague. Features of and trends in the society at the local level are incorporated into the curriculum, so that the programme is always current and addresses the practical issues facing the GP in training as much as possible.
The teaching programme places specific emphasis on themes that the LUMC considers important: interprofessional learning, geriatric medicine, population-based care, and knowledge and research.
The interdisciplinary cooperation with other specialists within the LUMC and the connection with the current state of science contribute to expanding the knowledge and depth of understanding on these themes.
The establishment of the GP programme on LUMC Campus The Hague presents you with the opportunity to focus maximally on the development of competences in the area of regional, community-based, and population-based partnerships.
Diversity and relatively large differences in health outcomes in and between communities in The Hague dictate specific requirements for primary care, and thus for future professional practitioners in health.
The location in The Hague also offers growth potential because this is an area that will need to train more GPs to be able to keep up with demand.
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Teaching in the GP programme remains linked to the best available scientific research and is at all times in contact with the field in practice.
Because of changes in the care sector, such as the shift from secondary to primary care and the increasing number of complex care issues, the theme of interprofessional learning and training continues to grow as a component of our curriculum. We are developing more and more initiatives for supporting AIOSs in forming interprofessional cooperation competences in the workplace with the object of improving outcomes in healthcare.
The geriatric medicine specialisation in Leiden (Specialisme Ouderengeneeskunde Opleiding Leiden, ‘SOOL’) is an important partner and offers opportunities for AIOSs to train in an academic network environment where geriatric medicine and diversity are important areas of focus. These partially joint programmes within SOOL and the GP programme promote interdisciplinary cooperation and expertise in generic medicine. The LUMC GP programme offers the differentiation module Geriatric Medicine, which is available to all AIOSs anywhere in the country.
The theme of population-based care is given extra attention in the curriculum. The differentiation module ‘Policy and Management’ in the LUMC GP programme goes more in-depth on the topic of population-based care. In the Population Health Living Lab The Hague, doctors, data scientists, researchers, administrators, and behavioural scientists collaborate on ways to improve the health of patients and reduce discrepancies in health outcomes. They are doing this by developing and implementing proactive care programmes targeted to risk groups. Within this partnership, the Campus is the place where the connections between practice-oriented research on this theme and teaching in the GP programme intersect. Here, AIOSs become familiar with the application of evidence-based knowledge in practice because in the programme, they are given specific instruments for population-based, proactive, and interprofessional care.
The GP programme is a component of the LUMC’s Public Health and Primary Care department (Public Health en Eerstelijnsgeneeskunde, ‘PHEG’). PHEG is an academic teaching and research centre, and represents the groups of medical professionals that are active outside the walls of the hospital in healthcare and prevention. The emphasis is on research and teaching that is developed in close interaction with the partners in the region. The department works closely with all medical specialists in the LUMC. PHEG’s focus is on extramural care and population health, and the use of eHealth (the Netherlands eHealth Living Lab, ‘NeLL’) plays an important role in its work. The department has in-house expertise on the elderly, diversity, lifestyle interventions and evidence-based transitions in care. Both regionally and nationally, PHEG has an active function in various networks such as the Extramural Leiden Academic Network (ELAN) and the University Network for the Care Sector Zuid-Holland (UNC-ZH). In addition, the department participates in a number of academic workshops in the region, in which institutes study the innovations that can be used to make public health better.
At Health Campus The Hague, research and teaching are primarily oriented towards supporting the regional function of the LUMC and the interdisciplinary cooperation within the university. On campus, there are structural partnerships with the regional hospitals, primary care groups, Municipal Health Centers and Mental Health Care Services to promote the health and treatment of patients in the urban area of greater The Hague. With Population Health as one of the LUMC’s social key focus areas, the Campus supports this by offering a modular and interdisciplinary Master’s programme in Population Health Management. In 2016, Health Campus The Hague began a partnership in which the LUMC, Leiden University, the HagaZiekenhuis hospital, HMC+, Haaglanden Municipal Health Centre, the municipality of The Hague, Parnassia Mental Health Care Services, the Reinier de Graaf Group, the Hadoks GP cooperative in The Hague, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences participate in various ways. The ambition is for Health Campus The Hague to grow into a ‘School of Population Health and Primary Care’: a preeminent academic knowledge centre where people from multiple disciplines come together on issues of public health and primary care.
Want to know more about LUMC’s GP programme?
Please send an email to: huisartsopleiding@lumc.nl
Or contact Hedwig Vos at h.m.m.vos@lumc.nl
