Premedical students' experiences in community-oriented primary care

Park, Eal Whan

doi:10.3946/kjme.2013.25.3.229

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“…While learning in the community, learners quite often have to perform specific tasks ( 59 ). In a lot of these courses the practical part involves participation in regular activities within the community, usually disease prevention and health promotion ( 60 ).…”

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Teaching and Learning Core Values in General Practice/Family Medicine: A Narrative Review

et al. 2021

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General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) is a key discipline within primary health care and so by extension for the whole health care system. An essential condition for effective GP/FM care is a work force that is highly qualified. As society is changing rapidly, a revision of the GP/FM definition is ongoing, in addition to a recent movement of identifying related core values. In this paper, we want to give an overview on how these new paths and perspectives are currently reflected in GP/FM teaching and training. We selected four core values that fit in with possible future visions: person-centered care, continuity of care, cooperation in care, and community-oriented care. By a narrative review, we observed that GP/FM education toward core values is often built around overarching topics. Teaching and learning take place in specific contexts, most of all through placements within communities, primary care settings, or hospital wards. Mixed teaching- and training methods are used combining knowledge, skills, and attitude. Furthermore, collaboration with other health professionals and peers is stressed, in addition to the importance of role models, a holistic focus and the involvement of patients. Since these core values are important within GP/FM and rather few studies on the educational aspects and learning tools were found we advocate encouraging each other more to share good practices, certainly the innovative ones specifically related to GP/FM.

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“…However, in South Korea, undergraduate medical education (UME) is not sufficiently prepared to train adequate physicians to be engaged in rural and public health (RPH). In fact, RPH has been marginalized across the whole curriculum both in premedical and medical courses thus far [4,5]. …”

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Evaluation of an extracurricular program for students interested in rural and public health

Kim

et al. 2017

Korean J Med Educ

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PurposeThe problem regarding the geographic imbalance of the physician workforce has been a long-standing problem in South Korea. Additionally, rural medicine and public health have been marginalized across whole undergraduate curriculums. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an extracurricular program targeting medical students interested in rural and public health.MethodsA 2-day extracurricular program was held twice in 2015 and 2016. A total of 53 students were selected among eighty students who voluntarily applied to participate in the program. The effectiveness of the program was evaluated by pre- and post-program surveys.ResultsThe overall satisfaction for the program was 5.35 out of 6. The participants showed a significant improvement in perception of the clerkship experience in a rural and public health care setting as well as the importance of rural medicine and public health in South Korea.ConclusionIn conclusion, this study showed the acceptability of a short-term extracurricular program for medical students interested in rural and public health.

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Key themes of community-oriented primary care projects from a longitudinal, rural interprofessional health professions curriculum (1997–2023)

Hinkle,

Sheppard,

Fess

et al. 2024

BMC Med Educ

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Background The Community Oriented Primary Care Project Model (COPC) has been well studied globally as well as in the United States as a way to provide both community-centered primary care and to engage in community based research. Rural trainees through the University of Illinois College of Medicine’s Rural Medical Education Program (RMED) and Rural Pharmacy Education Program (RPHARM) students through the University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy have participated in a COPC project as a capstone to a four month longitudinal, immersive community-based experience in a rural primary care setting. The purpose of this study was to assess the type of projects implemented through a rural health professions curriculum over a 30 year project period. . Methods A research team reviewed projects on 30 elements; including topic and demographics. Patterns in COPC topics and rurality of the location in which the COPC project were also examined by using 2021 U.S. Census Bureau population data and Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) Code. Results COPC projects were categorized into 31 main topic areas with mental health being the most prevalent topic area covered by projects ( n = 67, 15.7%) followed by 43 (10.1%) projects that focused on nutrition/exercise, and 41 (9.6%) focused on substance use (presented as a separate category from mental health in this analysis). Conclusions For three decades, COPC themes reflect priority health issues in rural communities while providing a scholarly activity for health profession student trainees Past projects have also been implemented in highly rural areas where research is not often conducted. The COPC research process can be easily replicated in other trainee models such as to fulfill ACGME requirements of scholarly activity and can provide a template for trainees of this model to implement community-engaged research in the future.

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Premedical students' experiences in community-oriented primary care

Cited by 5 publications

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Teaching and Learning Core Values in General Practice/Family Medicine: A Narrative Review

Teaching and Learning Core Values in General Practice/Family Medicine: A Narrative Review

Evaluation of an extracurricular program for students interested in rural and public health

Key themes of community-oriented primary care projects from a longitudinal, rural interprofessional health professions curriculum (1997–2023)

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