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The AETCOM Module 1.1 outlines the essential roles of physicians in the healthcare system, emphasizing their responsibilities in diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention. Physicians also serve as team leaders, health educators, and researchers, while participating in national healthcare programs and community service. Their contributions are vital in improving quality of life, managing epidemics, and training future healthcare professionals.

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Aetcom 1

The AETCOM Module 1.1 outlines the essential roles of physicians in the healthcare system, emphasizing their responsibilities in diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention. Physicians also serve as team leaders, health educators, and researchers, while participating in national healthcare programs and community service. Their contributions are vital in improving quality of life, managing epidemics, and training future healthcare professionals.

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AETCOM MODULE

AETCOM Module number- Module No: 1.1

Name of the Module:Describe and discuss the role of a physician in health


care system
PHYSICIAN is the main pillar of the healthcare delivery system

The important roles of physician in health care system are as follows:

 The physician's primary role is to diagnose, treat and manage diseases

 Role in prevention of diseases - promotes and recommends lifestyle changes in


management of diseases.

 Role as team leader - plays a diverse role in coordinating,directing, communicating,


supervising and imparting effective health care delivery.

 Catering health delivery - role is important in primary (at village level) , secondary (at
district level ) and tertiary health care settings

 Role in health education - provides knowledge and help in sharpening the skill of
work force (nurses technicians etc.)

 Role in generating healthcare data - conduct survey and community-based statistical


research to evaluate benefits of healthcare delivery.

 Role in Research: physician gets involved in research to understand diseases and


development of new treatment, devices for improvent of patient care.

 Role in improving quality of life and lifespan – by providing therapeutics , curative ,


preventive and rehabilitative services

 Role in management of epidemics – timely management and awareness by doctors


can help in reducing risk of catastrophic situation as in epidemics

 Role in building professionalism and respect towards doctor community

 Role as trainers of present and future generation of doctor for community -


developing man-force for future healthcare delivery.

 Role as lifelong learner: to update their medical knowledge

 Participation in national healthcare programs – implementing various national health


care program such as a family welfare program, national , tuberculosis management
program, national program for prevention of malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, etc.
 Participating as social worker - provides honorary services in shelter homes, home
for the aged, slums, prison, as a health provider NGOs, etc.

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