Epidemiology and community health in the medical curriculum: the Nottingham experience.
The epidemiology and community health teaching programme in the medical curriculum in Nottingham is described. Epidemiology is taught as a major scientific discipline in the first two years, in addition to being applied to clinical situations in the later years. All students undertake a research project in the third year, and examples of these are given.
D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004739:England; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000193:education*