ICPCM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON PERSON CENTERED CARE: GENERAL CONCEPTS AND ORGANIZATION

The International College of Person Centered Medicine’s Educational programme is being developed in collaboration with our colleagues from the Indian Medical Association from a series of three symposia held during the ICPCM’s 6 International Congress of Person Centered Medicine in New Delhi, 2018. The purpose of the program is to spread understanding of the principles underlying person centred medicine and to address strategies and procedures for person-centered care in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes. [1] The program emphasises the centrality of the individual person in medical practice and the need for a person and people centered approach to Health Care [2]. To achieve this goal, medical professionalism within an interprofessional environment which is based on values inherent in medical ethics and human rights form the foundations of Person Centered Care [3]. The skills and attitudes developed for the personcentered management of clinical problems and health promotion need to be renewed in everyday clinical practice for the promotion of wellbeing and the management of Illness [4].