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Benbassat, Jochanan; Baumal, Reuben – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Undergraduate medical education is too long; it does not meet the needs for physicians' workforce; and its content is inconsistent with the job characteristics of some of its graduates. In this paper we attempt to respond to these problems by streamlining medical education along the following three reforms. First, high school graduates would be…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Physicians, Public Health
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
For years, New York health-care providers have treated Asian-Americans afflicted by serious, even life-threatening illnesses with ever-increasing frequency. Many doctors in the nation's largest city agreed that Asians seemed particularly at risk for specific health problems, but there was neither research nor statistics supporting physician…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Public Health, Asian Americans, Disproportionate Representation
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Sanford, Terry – Journal of Medical Education, 1975
Discusses preventive medicine and its importance in public health education. (PG)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Health Education, Higher Education, Medicine
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McNerney, Walter J. – Journal of Medical Education, 1975
Health education of the public is described as the missing link in health services. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Health Education, Higher Education, Medicine
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Baumel, Howard B. – American Biology Teacher, 1977
The events leading up to the present polio vaccination procedures and policies are presented. This short history is then compared to the swine flu vaccination program. (MA)
Descriptors: Biology, Comparative Analysis, Immunization Programs, Medicine
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Haggerty, Robert J. – Journal of Medical Education, 1974
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medicine
Barker, William H., Ed. – 1976
This monograph is the result of a conference on the role of preventive and community medicine in primary medical care and education. The following six papers were presented at the conference: (1) Roles of Departments of Preventive Medicine; (2) Competency-Based Objectives in Preventive Medicine for the Family Physician; (3) Preventive Medicine…
Descriptors: Books, Conference Reports, Family Health, Health Education
Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999
With federal officials leading high profile efforts to encourage HIV/AIDS prevention and new funding, blacks in academia are hopeful that more colleagues will join the fight. Notes some well-established models of community education, the emerging HIV/AIDS research agenda, the critical role of historically black medical schools in the HIV…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Black Colleges, Disease Control, Epidemiology