Teaching primary health care: some lessons from Zimbabwe.
A new teaching programme for fourth-year medical students in child health in Harare, Zimbabwe is outlined. A 2-week attachment to a rural district-level hospital is intended to orient the students to primary health care and to the practice of clinical medicine in a low resource environment. The attachment has become popular with students and it is hoped that it will improve attitudes of teaching staff in the medical school towards primary health care.
D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D015030:Zimbabwe