José Leiva-Fernández: MD, MHS. Vélez Sur Health Centre. Área Sanitaria Málaga Este-Axarquía. Vélez Málaga (Málaga), Spain. [email protected] Francisca Leiva-Fernández: MD, MHS. Multiprofesional Family and Community Medicine Teaching Unit of Primary Care Trust Málaga. Málaga, Spain. [email protected] Antonio García-Ruiz: MD, MHS. Farmacoeconomy and SRI Unit., Farmacoec...

BACKGROUND Disaster is a serious public health issue. Health professionals and community residents are main players in disaster responses but their knowledge levels of disaster medicine are not readily available. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge levels and training needs of disaster medicine among potential disaster responders and presented a necessity to popularize disaster medicine educ...

introduction: community-orientated medicine (come) is a topical area for debate in the current discussion about medical education, but it can be agued that medical education has always been in the community because medical practice is located therein. in this study the status of come in all universities were evaluated by educational development center (edc) of ministry of health and medical edu...

INTRODUCTION Medical education in many countries includes periods that students spend in the community. In Vietnam, a move towards more community-oriented teaching has increased the need for rural community-based education for medical students during recent years. At the same time, new policies and social changes have created difficulties for community-based education. The eight main medical sc...

Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) can be an effective paradigm for both the inclusion of preventive care in primary care practices, especially in rural Utah, and the effective teaching of preventive medicine and primary care. This article discusses the three major elements of COPC and suggests a five-step process to incorporate COPC into a health care professional’s practice that would be ...

Globally, one of the major trends is the development of translational medicine. The traditional hospital structure could not meet the demands of translational medicine development any longer and to explore a novel hospital structure is imperative. Following the times, China proposed and implemented a development strategy for a first-class modern research-oriented hospital. To establish a resear...

background according to the needs of health education, community oriented medical education was recommended. health students must learn more about prevalent diseases in their communities. objectives to introduce community oriented medical sciences education to students learning pathobiology and its effects. materials and methods this study was a quasi-experimental study conducted using the revi...