BACKGROUND Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a systematic approach to health care based on principles derived from epidemiology, primary care, preventive medicine, and health promotion that has been shown to have positive health benefits for communities in the United States and worldwide. METHODS MEDLINE was searched using the key phrase "community-oriented primary care." Other source...

BACKGROUND A revolution in health care is occurring as a result of changes in the practice of medicine and in society. Medical education, if it is to keep up with the times, needs to adapt to society's changing attitudes. Presently medical education has been criticised for its orientation and insensitivity to people's need. The MBBS curriculum of medical institutions of Nepal has been focusing ...

teaching foreign languages has a long, extended history. ever since man needed to communicate with other nations, the teaching of a foreign language gained a marked significance. by the end of the 18th century, after the industrial revolution, learning a foreign language and therefore teaching it became even more important. as in teaching a language the main goal is to enable learners to read, ...

In response to a request from the Pacific Basin Medical Association and the Micronesian Medical Council, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at the University of Auckland, are developing a distance learning postgraduate programme (Masters of Medical Science), for Micronesia. The health care model in the Pacific Basin promotes decentralised community-based preventative or clinical medicin...

CONTEXT Exposure of undergraduate medical students to general practice and community healthcare services is common practice in the international medical curricula. Nevertheless, proponents of the hospital and biotechnology based paradigm, which is still dominant within the medical academic environment, question both the scope and the setting of this training procedure. Regarding the latter, the...