Training in community medicine.

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...

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

Training and Evaluation in Medicine Effective or Ineffective: Establishing an Educational Culture Based on Community Health Priorities

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Community medicine.

Background: Road crash injury is largely preventable and predictable; it is a human-made problem amenable to rational analysis and countermeasures. All the studies on Road Traffic accidents either use number of accidents or victims according to availability of accident data. Studies combining these two types of data to identify hazardous locations are a rarity. In this study data on both, the n...

Community genetics and community medicine.

In the decades to come, molecular genetic insights and techniques will have great influence on prevention and health care. Health care providers should anticipate important new developments rather than just wait and see. For community doctors, who can impossibly oversee all relevant developments in sufficient detail, close communication with the community and clinical genetic specialists is nec...