title: The development and evaluation of community health competencies for family medicine.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA. mwolff@mcw.edu
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: L Kevin
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Hamberger
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ambuel
authors.forename: Syed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Geoffrey R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Swain
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: 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