title: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an M3 Community Health Curriculum.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an M3 community health curriculum that responds to recent changes within the health care finance and delivery system.
  
  
  METHODS
  The new curriculum was developed based on AAMC recommendations, LCME requirements, a national review of undergraduate community health curricula, and an internal review of the integration of community health concepts in M3 clerkships.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The M3 curriculum teaches: 1) the importance of being a community responsive physician; 2) SES factors that influence health; 3) cultural competency; and 4) the role of physicians as health educators. Student evaluations for the first twelve months of implementation indicate that students are most satisfied with presentations and less satisfied with required readings and a patient interview project.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most students agree that at the completion of the course they understand what it means to be a community-responsive physician, and they have developed skills to help them become more community responsive. Evaluation tools need to be developed to assess if students' behavior has changed due to course participation.
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Barbra
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Tovah
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beverdorf
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Staci
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: a Center for Healthy Communities Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Syed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
keywords: community health curriculum;; community responsive physician; undergraduate medical education;