Table 1
The selected movies according to the category, key family medicine competency and key topic.
| Movie (year, director) | The key family medicine competency | The key topics in the corresponding competence |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu) | Person-centred care | Social and cultural dimension |
| Community orientation | The effect of poverty on health care utilisation | |
| 50/50 (2011, Jonathan Levine) | Person-centred care | Understanding the patient’s personality and life aims |
| Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) | Specific problem-solving skills | An approach to patients according to prevalence and incidence of diseases in a community |
| Primary care management | Stroke | |
| Holistic approach | Holistic concept of care | |
| As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) | Person-centred care | Social and cultural dimension |
| Community orientation | The effect of poverty on health care utilisation | |
| Comprehensive approach | Multimorbidity | |
| Primary care management | Obsessive-compulsive disorder Coordination of health services’ utilization | |
| Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) | Person-centred care | Continuous management of patients |
| Specific problem solving skills | Diagnosis and management of an emergency situation | |
| Comprehensive approach | The use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients | |
| Primary care management | Common conditions | |
| Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | Person-centred care | Continuous management of patients |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Diagnosis and management of an emergency situation | |
| Comprehensive approach | The use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients | |
| Primary care management | Common conditions | |
| Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | Person-centred care | Continuous management of patients |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Uncertainty in medicine | |
| Comprehensive approach | Simultaneous management of acute and chronic conditions | |
| Primary care management | Gynaecological disorders | |
| Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (2012, Marcelo Gomez) | Primary care management | Depression, anxiety, somatoform disorders |
| Hannah and Her Sisters (1996; Woody Allen) | Specific problem-solving skills | Irrational use of investigations |
| Comprehensive approach | Consultation in family medicine | |
| Holistic approach | Holistic approach to communication | |
| The Intouchables (2011, Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) | Person-centred care | Understanding the patient’s personality and life aims |
| Community orientation | Health care management of patients with special needs | |
| Comprehensive approach | Consultation in family medicine | |
| Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) | Person-centred care | Understanding the patient’s personality and life aims |
| Primary care management | Diabetes | |
| Comprehensive approach | Multimorbidity | |
| Holistic approach | Holistic approach to communication | |
| Stopped on Track (2011, Andreas Dresen) | Person-centred care | Patients’ and their families’ understanding of a disease |
| Comprehensive approach | House visit | |
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | Community orientation | Health care organization and its effect on patients’ management outcomes |
| Primary care management | Epidural haematoma, abdominal pain, alcoholism Coordination of emergency services | |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Diagnosis and management of emergency situation | |
| The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | Person-centred care | Communication |
| Community orientation | Inequalities in health care provision | |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Step-wise decision-making | |
| Primary care management | Cancer Ill physician | |
| Holistic approach | ||
| The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper) | Person-centred care | Person-centred communication Partnership building |
| The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin McDonald) | Person-centred care | Social and cultural dimension Communication Partnership building |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Diagnosis and management of an emergency situation | |
| Primary care management | Epilepsy | |
| Holistic approach | Holistic concept of care | |
| What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993, Lasse Hallström) | Person-centred care | Family-centred approach |
| Holistic approach | Practical approach to holistic care | |
| Wit (2001, Mike Nichols) | Person-centred care | Communication Partnership building |
| Specific problem-solving skills | Ethics of history taking and clinical examination | |
Table 2
The selected movies according to the category, key family medicine competency and key topic.
| The main competency | Learning outcome | Movie (year, director) |
|---|---|---|
| Primary are | To manage primary contacts with patients dealing | Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) |
| management | with unselected problems | The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin McDonald) |
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | ||
| Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (2012, Marcelo Gomez) | ||
| Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) | ||
| To cover the full range of health conditions | Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) | |
| Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) | ||
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | ||
| Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (2012, Marcelo Gomez) | ||
| To co-ordinate care with other professionals | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| in primary care and with other specialists | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | |
| To master effective and appropriate care | As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) | |
| provision and health service utilisation | ||
| To make available to the patient the appropriate | The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | |
| services within the health care system | ||
| To act as an advocate for the patient | Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (2012, Marcelo Gomez) | |
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | ||
| Person-centred | To adopt a person-centred approach in dealing | What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993, Lasse Hallström) |
| care | with patients and problems in the context of the | The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin McDonald) |
| patient’s circumstances | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu) | |
| 50/50 (2011, Jonathan Levine) | ||
| Intouchables (2011, Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) | ||
| Stopped on Track (2011, Andreas Dresen) | ||
| The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | ||
| To develop and apply the general practice | Wit (2001, Mike Nichols) | |
| consultation, so as to bring about an effective | Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) | |
| doctor-patient relationship, with respect for the | As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) | |
| patient’s autonomy | The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | |
| To communicate, set priorities and act in | The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper) | |
| partnership | 50/50 (2011, Jonathan Levine) | |
| To provide longitudinal continuity of care as | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| determined by the needs of the patient, referring | Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) | |
| to continuing and co-ordinated care management | ||
| Specific problem | To relate specific decision making processes to | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) |
| solving skills | the prevalence and incidence of illness in a | Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) |
| community | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | |
| Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) | ||
| To selectively gather and interpret information | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | |
| from history-taking, physical examination and | Wit (2001, Mike Nichols) | |
| Investigations, and apply it to an appropriate | ||
| management plan in collaboration with the patient | ||
| Specific problem | To adopt appropriate working principles (e.g., | The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) |
| solving skills | incremental investigation), using time as a tool | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) |
| and to tolerate uncertainty | ||
| To intervene urgently when necessary | Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) | |
| The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin McDonald) | ||
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | ||
| To manage conditions which may present | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | |
| early and in an undifferentiated way | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | ||
| To make effective and efficient use of diagnostic | The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | |
| and therapeutic interventions | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| Hannah and Her Sisters (1996; Woody Allen) | ||
| Comprehensive | To manage multiple complaints and pathologies, | Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) |
| approach | both acute and chronic health problems in the | As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) |
| individual, simultaneously | Doc Hollywood (1991, Michael Caton-Jones) | |
| To promote health and well-being by applying | Hannah and Her Sisters (1996; Woody Allen) | |
| health promotion and disease prevention | Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) | |
| strategies appropriately | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| To manage and co-ordinate health promotion, | Stopped on Track (2011, Andreas Dresen) | |
| prevention, cure, care, palliation and | As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) | |
| rehabilitation | Dr. T & the Women (2000, Robert Altman) | |
| Community | To reconcile health needs of individual patients | As Good as It Gets (1997, James L. Brooks) |
| orientation | and the community in which they live, in balance | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) |
| with available resources | Intouchables (2011, Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) | |
| The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | ||
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu) | ||
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu) | ||
| Holistic | To use a bio-psycho-social model, taking into | Amour (2012, Michael Haneke) |
| approach | account cultural and existential dimensions | What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993, Lasse Hallstr&m) |
| The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin McDonald) | ||
| The Doctor (1991, Randa Haines) | ||
| Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross) | ||