Analyzing the social aspects of the integrated program of field training, research, and rural development course, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira, Sudan

Ahmed, Mohamed H.

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“…However, the Gezira University in Sudan has used community-based education, but because this university has achieved 75% of social accountability and has been located in a country known for its long history of community education, it was chosen as the representative of the African medical school. [ 16 ] Because of the small number of universities in the world that provide community-engaged medical education and the fact that the two colleges listed in the Philippines have distinct curriculum structures, both were included in the study. On the other hand, because of the interchangeable use of different terms of community-related education in the articles, the current study considered the most community-related education for comparison.…”

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Community-engaged medical education is a way to develop health promoters: A comparative study

Heidarpoor

Yazdani²

2023

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Although the importance of health promotion and empowerment of the community has been recognized for many years, there are still many barriers to adopting health promotion in the world. One of the solutions is socially accountable medical education and community engagement. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare the medical programs of five medical schools that practiced community-engaged medical education to medical education in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This comparative study has been performed in 2022 by the four-stage Bereday method, including description (the educational programs of the selected medical schools were examined), interpretation (a validated checklist was prepared according to community-based strategies), proximity (similar and different information was identified), and comparison (solutions were recommended to improve health promotion and community engagement in Iran's medical education program. The purposive sampling method was used to select five universities. RESULTS: Although successful initiatives have been attempted to integrate public health promotion and community orientation into the Iranian curriculum, they do not appear to be sufficient in comparison to leading countries. The main distinction is that the community is actively engaged in all stages of curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation. CONCLUSIONS: Although Iran's medical education program has a long way to go in terms of social accountability, by including more community-oriented initiatives into the curriculum, health needs of the community can be met and physician shortages in poor areas can be alleviated. It is recommended to implement modern teaching methods, to recruit diverse faculty and community members, and to increase the community placement in medical education.

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Community-engaged medical education is a way to develop health promoters: A comparative study

Heidarpoor

Yazdani²

2023

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Alliance Against COVID-19: One Step Forward

Ahmed

2020

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the data of Department of Health in United Kingdom (UK) showed an increase mortality and morbidity among the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population. This high mortality can be due to social factors, genetic and immunological factors. Metabolic factors like high prevalence of diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and hypertension were also found to contribute to the increased risk of COVID-19 infection in BAME population. In addition, a large number of BAME population are working in jobs that involve regular and daily contact with public, and this may increase risk of encountering COVID-19 infection. Therefore, future research should address all these factors and generate the correct health policy that will allow us to combat the danger of COVID-19. We recommend the establishment of BAME alliance against COVID-19 in order to improve occupational risks and hazards, adequate income protection, culturally and linguistically appropriate public health communications and decreasing barriers in accessing healthcare. The BAME alliance will initially focus on (i) development of central system to record data about COVID-19 patients from BAME population (ii) involvement of healthcare professionals and researchers from ethnic minorities and (iii) multidisciplinary and inter-institution collaboration; for example, civil engineers and architects need to think about house design and ventilation that decrease risk of COVID-19 especially in BAME populations.

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Integrating the social determinants of health into curriculum: AMEE Guide No. 162

Abdalla,

Taha,

Onchonga

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Analyzing the social aspects of the integrated program of field training, research, and rural development course, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira, Sudan

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Community-engaged medical education is a way to develop health promoters: A comparative study

Community-engaged medical education is a way to develop health promoters: A comparative study

Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Alliance Against COVID-19: One Step Forward

Integrating the social determinants of health into curriculum: AMEE Guide No. 162

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