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Peer reviewedBalzer, Jay A.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1980
Five dental schools were given grants to design and implement a training program for dental students in planning and delivering preventive dental services. These programs are described and compared, and it is concluded that all were generally successful and worthy of continuation. (JSR)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Dental Health
Peer reviewedAltekruse, Joan; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
Ideas for integrating preventive medicine into the undergraduate medical curriculum include options for curricula in quantitative skills, clinical preventive medicine, primary care rotation, community health services, and independent continuing education. Recommendations are based on a guide assessing the effectiveness of 169 types of preventive…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Health Services, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHaynes, M. Alfred; Lee, Arthur B. – Academic Medicine, 1995
The Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) was founded to address underrepresentation of blacks in health professions and inadequate health care in the homelands. It trains most allied health professionals in the country, emphasizing community service and preventive medicine. Medunsa and American health professions schools can learn from…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Blacks, Community Health Services, Educational History
Peer reviewedSmilkstein, Gabriel – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Community-based medical education is key to training physicians to work in needy fields such as outpatient care and health care for the medically underserved. Describes the disadvantages of traditional medical school curricula and presents sample community health curricula now being used. Suggests ways to increase medical students' awareness of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Health Services, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedSmith, David R.; Anderson, Ron J. – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Traces academic medicine's historical opposition to community medicine and its emphasis on traditional hospital-cased curricula subspecialties, to the neglect of primary and preventive care, community-oriented medicine, and public health. Calls for reducing barriers to basic medical services for all, and for training physicians equipped to respond…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Health Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Katz, F. M., Ed.; Fulop, T., Ed. – 1978
Innovations in the training of community health personnel that emphasize the importance of the development of health personnel able and willing to serve the community by providing health care, promoting health, preventing disease, and caring for those in need are examined. The need for effective and efficient training programs relevant to present…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Studies, Community Health Services, Community Services
Download full textPublic Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1980
A 28-day visit to the People's Republic of China during June and July 1978 by the Rural Health Systems Delegation from the United States, sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, resulted in an exchange of information about rural health policy and planning. Specific areas of emphasis included:…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Community Health Services, Cultural Exchange, Family Planning
