BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the impact of laborists (which we defined as "clinicians dedicated to providing L&D care services in the hospital environment for pregnant patients, regardless of who provided the prenatal care" for this survey) on family medicine residency training. We surveyed family medicine residency directors to assess characteristics about laborist services ...

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. DESCRIPTION The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous reports have defined the time that community preceptors spend teaching students, but much remains to be learned about the process and content of office-based teaching. Our objective was to understand better the teaching process and content by documenting how often preceptors used the microskills described in the Five-step "Microskills" Model of Clinical Teachi...

When disasters strike, local physicians are at the front lines of the response in their community. Curriculum guidelines have been developed to aid in preparation of family medicine residents to fulfill this role. Disaster responsiveness has recently been added to the Residency Review Committee Program Requirements in Community Medicine with little family medicine literature support. In this ar...

In this paper we summarize our long-term experiences with teaching object-oriented programming in university courses using teaching support tools called object benches. We describe four software tools: BlueJ, Greenfoot, Alice and Visual Studio’s Object test bench. Common feature of those tools is runtime access to objects, their attributes and operations. We present our experience with using ob...

A population health curriculum using methodologies from community-oriented primary care (COPC) was developed in 1994 as part of a required third-year family medicine clerkship at the University of New Mexico. The curriculum integrates population health/community medicine projects and problem-based tutorials into a community-based, ambulatory clinical experience. By combining a required populati...

Little is known about how medical students view academic medicine. This multi-institutional study explored student perceptions of this career path. During 2009-2010, third- and fourth-year students at three United States medical schools completed a 30-item online survey. In total, 239 students completed the questionnaire (37 % response rate). Significant predictors of students' desires for acad...

Community-oriented primary care (COPC) combines elements of clinical medicine and public health to provide an effective strategy in tackling today's health problems. A primary care practice or program that develops a partnership with an identified community to describe and prioritize health concerns and design and monitor the impact of an intervention can make a difference to the health of a co...

This paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches of teaching veterinary parasitology, including the disciplinary, the problem-oriented and combined approaches. In the disciplinary approach, parasitology is taught in the classical manner as a coherent subject, covering parasite morphology, biology, molecular biology, epidemiology, pathology and immunology, as well as c...