Designing a curriculum for training community-responsive physicians.
There is a need for physicians who will promote health for all, especially for the out-of-hospital patient and the medically underserved. Community-based medical education is central to the training of these physicians. Ad hoc programs have improved student awareness of community-oriented primary care (COPC) during the past two decades. These programs have included student-initiated clinics in medically underserved communities. Future goals to advance COPC should include recruitment of motivated students, longitudinal community-based training programs, research opportunities in COPC, and the development of a cadre of COPC role models.
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Department of Family Practice, University of Louisville, KY 40292.
D003154:Community Medicine / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D011203:Poverty; D011320:Primary Health Care; D014481:United States