EGPRN Member
Thomas Frese
Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Germany
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- Academic Background
- MD or equivalent
- Qualification
- General Practitioner/Family Doctor
- Short Bio
- Thomas Frese was born in 1980 in the former GDR, he graduated School in Klingenthal, Saxony in 1999. Thomas Frese studied medicine at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2000-2007). During his studies the high interest towards general practice and family medicine increased. Since 2007 he worked as a general practice trainee at different disciplines of medicine. Thomas Frese works part-time at the Department of General Practice of the Medical Faculty in Leipzig, Germany (since 2008). He finished his doctoral thesis – an investigation towards melatonin-insulin interactions in diabetic and non-diabetic rats – at the Institute of Anatomy (University Halle-Wittenberg) with the quote “summa cum laude” in 2009. Thomas Frese is engaged in teaching medical students, tutoring doctoral candidates and conducting research projects in a postdoctoral position at the Department of General Practice of the Medical Faculty in Leipzig. The results of his research are published in international journals. He completed the specialization in general practice in 2012. Since 2013 he is working as a general practitioner in a rural area north from Leipzig, Germany. General practice trainees are supervised in his practice since 2014. The work as associate Editor of BMC Family Practice started also in 2014. Together with his partner, Louise, he has two sons (born in May 2015 and December 2017). Since 2016 Thomas Frese is German national representative and member of the executive board of the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN). Thomas Frese is Professor and Head of Department of the Institute of General Practice at the Medical Faculty of the University Halle-Wittenberg since October 2016. He became Honorary Secretary of the EGPRN in October 2018 and Member of the Wonca Europe executive board in June 2019.
Published Abstracts 27
Communication between General Practitioners and Nursing Homes in Germany 2019.
Eric Kroeber, Thomas Frese, Alexander Bauer
Presented on 16/10/2020 at the 90th EGPRN Meeting.
The primary care patients' willingness to be treated with brief intervention to reduce the alcohol consumption: a cross-sectional study.
Thomas Fankhaenel, Thomas Frese, Anna Louise Mueller
Presented on 16/10/2020 at the 90th EGPRN Meeting.
A new data collection project for studies of the process of diagnosis in primary care: collecting data on reasons for encounter and diagnoses in episodes of care in Europe.
Jean Karl Soler, Thomas Frese, Brendan Delaney, Christos Lionis, Dimitris Kounalakis, Mehmet Ungan, Heidrun Lingner, Nicola Buono
Presented on 01/05/2021 at the 92nd EGPRN Meeting.
Mixed method situational review of primary family violence care in IMOCAFV
Sara Ares Blanco, Thomas Frese, Anca Lacatus, Ana Claveria, Raquel Gómez Bravo, Zaida Azeredo, Markus Herrmann, Nena Kopcavar, Jinan Usta, Carmen Fernández Alonso, Sarah Simons, Leo Pas
Presented on 16/10/2020 at the 90th EGPRN Meeting.
Caring relatives in General Practice – subjective perspectives of General Practitioners from Saxony-Anhalt
Yvonne Marx, Thomas Frese, Alexander Bauer
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Identifying patients with psychosocial problems in general practice: a scoping review.
Rosemarie Schwenker, Tobias Deutsch, Thomas Frese, Susanne Unverzagt
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Point-of-care testing among general practitioners, a cross-sectional study
Angelika Sandholzer-Yilmaz, Ricarda Oehme, Thomas Frese, Marcus Heise, Thomas Fankhaenel
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Randomized controlled trials on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes in African countries - a systematic review
Angelika Sandholzer-Yilmaz, Susanne Unverzagt, Thomas Frese, Eric Kroeber
Presented on 30/04/2021 at the 92nd EGPRN Meeting.
German primary care data collection projects: a scoping review
Konstantin Moser, Janka Massag, Thomas Frese, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Jan Christoph, Susanne Unverzagt
Presented on 14/05/2022 at the 94th EGPRN Meeting.
Gender gap and differences in efficacy and safety in the treatment of patients with coronary heart disease
Susanne Unverzagt, Monika Nothacker, Thomas Frese
Presented on 22/10/2022 at the 95th EGPRN Meeting.
Perspectives on communicative barriers and resources of digital communication between Nursing Homes and Family Practices: a mixed methods study
Eric Kroeber, Kathleen Denny, Thomas Frese, Alexander Bauer
Presented on 13/05/2022 at the 94th EGPRN Meeting.
Raising medical students’ awareness for the interdependence between oral health and chronic diseases to promote future collaboration with dentists – evaluation of a problem-based learning approach
Katharina Pöschel, Markus Bleckwenn, Anne Schrimpf, Thomas Frese, Gerhard Schmalz, Dirk Ziebolz, Tobias Deutsch
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Non-pharmacological interventions to achieve blood pressure control in African patients : a systematic review
Monique Cernota, Eric Kröber, Tamiru Demeke, Thomas Frese, Sefonias Getachew, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Susanne Unverzagt
Presented on 01/05/2021 at the 92nd EGPRN Meeting.
Undergraduate students’ adoption of a new extra-curricular GP teaching project (LeiKA)
Anne-Kathrin Geier, Christiane Saur, Stefan Lippmann, Thomas Frese, Tobias Deutsch
Presented on 06/10/2018 at the 87th EGPRN Meeting.
Motivational Interviewing for substance abuse. A systematic review.
Rosemarie Schwenker, Carla Dietrich, Selamawit Hirpa, Thomas Frese, Susanne Unverzagt
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Identifying patients with psychosocial problems in general practice: a scoping review
Rosemarie Schwenker, Tobias Deutsch, Susanne Unverzagt, Thomas Frese
Presented on 14/05/2022 at the 94th EGPRN Meeting.
Fostering specialist training in General Practice – evaluation of the centers of competence in specialist training in Saxony-Anhalt
Torben Ibs, Christiane Henckel, Andreas Klement, Thomas Frese
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Students underestimate GPs’ earnings – Should we talk about money? A report on preliminary results of an ongoing study
Tobias Deutsch, Stefan Lippmann, Alexander Heine, Thomas Frese
Presented on 21/10/2017 at the 85th EGPRN Meeting.
What is important to attract medical students to rural clerkships?
Sabine Herget, Melanie Nafziger, Stephanie Sauer, Thomas Frese, Tobias Deutsch
Presented on 19/10/2019 at the 89th EGPRN Meeting.
The GPs' low readiness to treat excessive consumers with brief intervention to reduce their alcohol consumption: A problem of the health problem?
Thomas Fankhaenel, Benjamin Panic, Marcus Schwarz, Katrin Schulz, Thomas Frese
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Patients' and physicians' attitudes towards artificial intelligence in primary healthcare: A qualitative study
Jana Gundlack, Sarah Negash, Charlotte Buch, Timo Apfelbacher, Thomas Frese, Susanne Unverzagt
Presented on 22/10/2022 at the 95th EGPRN Meeting.
A new data collection project for studies of the process of diagnosis in primary care: collecting data on reasons for encounter and diagnoses in episodes of care in Europe.
Jean Karl Soler, Nicola Buono, Christos Lionis, Brendan Delaney, Heidrun Lingner, Thomas Frese
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Peer- elaboration and ranking of core values in general practice in post-Soviet Ukraine.
Pavlo Kolesnyk, Sabine Bayen, Ivanna Shushman, Andrew Kolesnyk, George Kuodza, Zalika Klemenc Ketiš, Thomas Frese
Presented on 16/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.
Participation in structured diabetes mellitus self-management education program and association with self-management behavior - results from a population-based study
Solveig Carmienke, Marcus Heise, Jens Baumert, Lars Gabrys, Alexander Bauer, Yong Du, Thomas Frese, Christin Heidemann, Astrid Fink
Presented on 16/10/2020 at the 90th EGPRN Meeting.
What Hungarian medical students think about Family Medicine as a speciality? Is it a career choice?
András Mohos, Csenge Hargittay, Bernadett Márkus, Attila Nagy, Krisztián Vörös, Szilvia Ádám, Thomas Frese, László Kalabay, Péter Torzsa
Presented on 06/10/2018 at the 87th EGPRN Meeting.
“What should medical students learn to be prepared for rural practice? Qualitative analysis of expert interviews with German rural physicians”
Sabine Herget, Kay Klinge, Melanie Nafziger, Stephanie Sauer, Markus Bleckwenn, Tobias Deutsch, Thomas Frese
Presented on 30/04/2021 at the 92nd EGPRN Meeting.
Willingness of German general practitioners to participate in long-term research networks
Larissa Virnau, Annett Bräsigk, Tobias Deutsch, Alexander Bauer, Eric Kröber, Markus Bleckwenn, Thomas Frese, Heidrun Lingner
Presented on 30/04/2021 at the 92nd EGPRN Meeting.
Interests
- Methodology
- Quantitative Research