Continuity in Community Medicine Training

Barriers to training family medicine residents in community health centers.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Training partnerships between family medicine residencies (FMRs) and community health centers (CHCs) are a potential solution to the chronic problem of health workforce shortages in CHCs. We conducted a national survey to identify the barriers to training family medicine residents in CHCs. METHODS We asked US family medicine residency directors to identify barriers t...

Continuity of community.

One of the 4 principles of family medicine declares that family medicine is a community-based discipline. But what exactly is a community? The origin of the word is probably a combination of the Latin “cum,” meaning “together, among each other,” and “munus” meaning “gift.” So the word literally means to “give among each other.” Of course, there are many definitions of community. I can identify ...

Teaching/Training and Practice of Public Health/PSM/Community Medicine

A community continuity programme: volunteer faculty mentors and continuity learning.

BACKGROUND Longitudinal generalist preceptorship experiences early in medical education can have beneficial effects on how students practise the art and science of medicine, regardless of their eventual career choices. DESCRIPTION We evaluated the first 2 years of implementation of an integrated, regional campus-based, early clinical experience programme, the Community Continuity Program, at ...

Continuity of care in community midwifery

Continuity of care is often critical in delivering high quality health care. However, it is difficult to achieve in community health care where shift patterns and a need to minimise travelling time can reduce the scope for allocating staff to patients. Community midwifery is one example of such a challenge in the National Health Service where postnatal care typically involves a series of home v...