EGPRN : European General Practice Research Network

Abstract

The theme of the Zürich meeting, very well organized by Marco Zoller and his colleagues from the Zürich Institute for Family Medicine, was ‘ Motivation in medical education and patient communication. ’ Jan-Joost Rethans gave a key-note lecture on the use of simulated patients to motivate learning by medical students. Norbert Donner-Banzhoff discussed the tension between ‘ motivational interviewing ’ and ‘ shared decision making. ’ Klaus Bally and Andreas Zeller told us about research in Swiss primary care, the ‘ Swiss cheese challenge ’ as they called it. We were impressed by the number of complex randomized clinical trials performed by the Swiss departments of GP/FM!