Bringing medicine closer to the people
The opening of the Centre for Primary Care Medicine (CeMPR) on November 27, created jointly by the Department of Primary Care Medicine of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University Institute of Family and Child Medicine, aims to promote a strong family and primary care medicine in Geneva.
What is primary care medicine?
The primary care physician is the doctor treating each patient, responsible for providing comprehensive, ongoing care to people who wish it, regardless of their age, sex or illness. On the basis of a relationship of trust built up through repeated contacts, he or she treats people taking into account their family, community and cultural context, while always respecting their autonomy. This so-called "holistic" approach also takes into account the lifestyles, concerns and contemporary realities of people's environment, in a given time and place.
What are the aims of this new centre?
By piloting innovative teaching, research and knowledge-sharing projects, the Centre for Primary Care Medicine is working to strengthen Geneva's healthcare system by promoting this medical speciality of proximity and collaboration.
Professor Idris Guessous, co-director of the CeMPR, was recently Léman Bleu on this subject..
In terms of research, the Population Epidemiology Unit, which is part of the Primary Care Medicine Department, is also working in this area, on a population-wide scale. The research in which you are involved is guided by this same collaborative vision, with the aim of promoting and preventing health for everyone in the canton, in the face of the challenges posed by our contemporary lifestyles.
