The development and evaluation of community health competencies for family medicine.
BACKGROUND
There is an increasing emphasis on teaching community-responsive care and population health in medical education. This focus requires a multidimensional perspective on community health that examines the determinants, ranges, and variations of health status and disease in the community as a whole.


METHODS
The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin sought to strengthen the community health curriculum in its residency programs by developing a core set of competencies in community health as well as a service-learning model to teach residents about community needs and strengths.


RESULTS
A common core curriculum was developed and evaluated based on these competencies.


CONCLUSIONS
Residents who have mastered these competencies will be capable of functioning more effectively as community-responsive physicians.
Wolff
Marie
M
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA. mwolff@mcw.edu
Hamberger
L Kevin
LK
Ambuel
Bruce
B
Ahmed
Syed
S
Swain
Geoffrey R
GR
Hunter
Paul
P
Smith
David
D
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014922:Wisconsin