Community-oriented medical education in Glasgow: developing a community diagnosis exercise.
Objectives Recent NHS changes have included an increasing emphasis on primary care settings, and hence community needs assessment. This has led to suggestions that medical education should become more community-oriented if today's medical students are to become effective medical practitioners. Recen...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 55 - 63 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan1999
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106095430&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106095430 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03080110 ESF jtl: Medical Education issn: 03080110 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan1999 vid: 33 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 106095430 2009441644 10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00266.x NLM10211278 106095430 ppf: 55 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Community-oriented medical education in Glasgow: developing a community diagnosis exercise. aug: au: Davison H Capewell S Macnaughton J Murray S Hanlon P Mcewen J sug: subj: Education, Medical Health Services Needs and Demand Primary Health Care Problem-Based Learning Curriculum Epidemiological Research Scotland Human ab: Objectives Recent NHS changes have included an increasing emphasis on primary care settings, and hence community needs assessment. This has led to suggestions that medical education should become more community-oriented if today's medical students are to become effective medical practitioners. Recent curriculum reforms in a number of medical schools frequently involve a more student-centred approach, which encourages students to learn by intellectual discovery and critical thinking. We describe one such exercise in community diagnosis that has been developed in Glasgow's new undergraduate medical curriculum. Design The exercise has been developed as three teaching sessions, each with specific learning objectives. The first session explores the strengths and weaknesses of routine statistics, and reveals the lack of information regarding individual's and community's health and health care needs. The second session is a community-based rapid participatory appraisal arranged by general practitioners. Students interview patients, carers, and local key informants and health care professionals about their perceptions of health and health needs. In the final campus-based session, students combine and present their findings. Development included two pilot exercises involving detailed evaluation. Setting University of Glasgow. Subjects Medical students. Results Students valued the contrasting perspectives and information provided by different sources. After completing the three sessions, most students and tutors considered it an interesting, enjoyable and educational experience. Conclusions This innovative community-oriented teaching programme gave students some insight into how health, morbidity and mortality are measured, why these might vary between different communities, and how different community members' perspectives might differ regarding perceived health and social needs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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