The Centre for Family Medicine, 10 B Victoria St S, Kitchener, ON N2G 1C5.
Can Fam Physician. 2011 Jul;57(7):e249-52.
Currently, dementia care provided by family physicians is suboptimal and access to specialist resources is limited. With the aging population, there is a need for system-wide, programmatic interventions to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with memory difficulties. The development of primary care memory clinics addresses this need.
The Memory Clinic Training Program aims to develop highly functioning interprofessional memory clinics that assist family physicians in providing improved care for patients with dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment.
The interprofessional training program consists of a 2-day case-based workshop, 1 day of observership and clinical training at the Centre for Family Medicine Memory Clinic, and 2 days of on-site mentorship at each newly formed memory clinic.
The Memory Clinic Training Program is an accredited, comprehensive program designed to assist family practice groups with developing primary care memory clinics. These clinics aim to transform the current limited practice capability of individual family physicians into a systematic, comprehensive, interprofessional health care service that improves capacity and quality of primary care for patients with cognitive impairment and dementia.
目前，家庭医生提供的痴呆症护理不尽如人意，而且获得专家资源的机会有限。随着人口老龄化，需要在全系统范围内采取有计划的干预措施，以改善有记忆困难的患者的诊断和管理。设立初级保健记忆诊所就是为了满足这一需求。
记忆诊所培训计划旨在建立运作良好的跨专业记忆诊所，帮助家庭医生为痴呆症和其他形式认知障碍的患者提供更好的护理。
该跨专业培训计划包括为期 2 天的基于案例的研讨会、在家庭医学记忆诊所进行 1 天的观摩和临床培训，以及在每个新成立的记忆诊所进行 2 天的现场指导。
记忆诊所培训计划是一个经过认证的综合项目，旨在帮助家庭医生团队建立初级保健记忆诊所。这些诊所旨在将目前个别家庭医生有限的实践能力转变为系统、全面、跨专业的医疗保健服务，从而提高认知障碍和痴呆症患者初级保健的能力和质量。
