title: Community experience for medical students.
abstract: This article outlines the features of community postings for medical students in their second clinical year at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, in Pondicherry, India. Their exposure to the realities of preventive and social medicine in the field clearly helps them to cope with what would otherwise be only theoretical knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Srinivasa
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Soudarssanane
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ramalingam
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Narayan
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Rotti
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Danabalan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sahai
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012423:Rural Health