Koki Kato
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Koki Kato
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Director of a GP Practice in Japan, GP, MPH, Master of FamMed, tutor at UoEFamMed, with extended role in palliative home care, interested in advanced generalist care and narrative approach.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/koki-kato-9638361b7/
'Characters are the product of the writer's imagination - and the reader's. These two strong dynamics create characters in literature.
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Inductive Foraging.

The first part of the medical interview is to let the patient narrate and retain the information that comes out of it.
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Temporality in phenomenology (how one is anchored within the present, which is imbued with specific meaning by past experiences and an anticipated future) is related to intertextuality in literary theory.
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Ferrara, V., Pozzilli, P., De Gara, L., Mancuso, T., La Torre, G., & Guarino, M. (2025). The Art of Observation - How Art Enhances Healthcare Professionals' Skills. La Clinica terapeutica, 176(5), 672–674.
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I recommend this paper to GENERALISTS. It is about PRACTICAL WISDOM, which is not often written about coherently.

Whether technē (doing) or phronesis (being) is more important in medicine depends on the goal: whether the goal is the treatment of disease or the healing of illness.
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I recommend this paper to GENERALISTS. It is about PRACTICAL WISDOM, which is not often written about coherently.

Whether technē (doing) or phronesis (being) is more important in medicine depends on the goal: whether the goal is the treatment of disease or the healing of illness.
September 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I recommend this paper to GENERALISTS. It is about PRACTICAL WISDOM, which is not often written about coherently.

Whether technē (doing) or phronesis (being) is more important in medicine depends on the goal: whether the goal is the treatment of disease or the healing of illness.
September 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Chu, SY., Wen, CC. & Lin, CW. A qualitative study of clinical narrative competence of medical personnel. BMC Med Educ 20, 415 (2020). doi.org/10.1186/s129...
A qualitative study of clinical narrative competence of medical personnel - BMC Medical Education
Background Medicine practiced with narrative competence is called narrative medicine, which has been proposed and used as a model of humane and effective medical practice. Despite the in-depth discuss...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ventres W, Gross P. Getting Started: A Call for Storytelling in Family Medicine Education. Fam Med 2016;48(9):682-687.

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Family Medicine
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August 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In our short communication, we argue that professional identity formation must be reconsidered to encompass two different perspectives of autonomy—independence and responsiveness.

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#PIF #MedicalEducation #Selfhood #Interdependence
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July 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In our short communication, we argue that professional identity formation must be reconsidered to encompass two different perspectives of autonomy—independence and responsiveness.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#PIF #MedicalEducation #Selfhood #Interdependence
www.tandfonline.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted by Koki Kato
BJGPLife: The clinician’s narrative and the patient’s narrative are ontologically equivalent
bjgplife.com/the-cli...

#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
July 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
One of the things that the UK, a country that has led the world in general practice and family medicine, can do in collaboration with doctors in the red-list countries

bjgp.org/content/75/7...

#BJGP #GPworkforce #RedList
July 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
One of the things that the UK, a country that has led the world in general practice and family medicine, can do in collaboration with doctors in the red-list countries

bjgp.org/content/75/7...

#BJGP #GPworkforce #RedList
An international primary care workforce: addressing the ethics beyond the red list
In March 2025, the Nuffield Trust published a report1 that examined ‘Health in the UK after Brexit’. This highlighted the instability of the UK healthcare workforce following the end of free movement ...
bjgp.org
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
June 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
June 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Johnson, J. A., & Ahluwalia, S. (2025). Recruiting and retaining doctors-a wicked problem needing complex solutions. Postgraduate medical journal, qgaf058. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1093/post...
Recruiting and retaining doctors—a wicked problem needing complex solutions
Abstract. Recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals, particularly doctors, remains a critical challenge for the National Health Service (NHS), exac
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June 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by Koki Kato
Great to speak to Dr Steve Bradley for the @bjgp.bsky.social podcast about use of chest x-rays for lung cancer diagnosis in general practice. Listen to the podcast here 👉 bjgplife.com/episode-205-... #primarycare
Episode 205: More chest x-rays lead to earlier lung cancer diagnoses and better cancer survival – what we can be doing differently in practice
In this episode, we talk to Dr Steve Bradley about use of chest x-ray and lung cancer diagnosis.
bjgplife.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by Koki Kato
The first systematic review of practice and population factors associated with the Quality and Outcomes Framework, the most widespread national pay-for-performance initiative in general practice in the UK to date

➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
@luisaptg.bsky.social #SystematicReview
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Koki Kato
The Person-Centred Integrated Care approach benefits patients with #ChronicDisease across all socioeconomic status levels when tailored to their individual skills, needs, and capabilities doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #Research
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May 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM