i
Teaching medical students epidemiology: utilizing a state health department.
-
1985 Jul-Aug
Source: Public Health Rep. 100(4):401-405
Details:
-
Alternative Title:Public Health Rep
-
Personal Author:
-
Description:An epidemiology teaching course for third-year medical students was developed at the University of Vermont's College of Medicine by staff members of the Vermont Department of Health in conjunction with clinical faculty members. The course consists of analyses of actual community health problems encountered by the health department, evaluation of published clinical studies, and design of studies on current public health issues in Vermont. In the course's first year, 54 percent of the students gave it an overall assessment of average or above average. A striking improvement was found in the second year; 98 percent of the students rated their overall assessment as average or better. Sessions rated the best by students were the critical appraisal of clinical studies, followed by sessions on study design and outbreak investigations. The Vermont course communicates epidemiologic concepts to students by stressing their clinical relevance and by putting the concepts into a recognizable public health context. Students are required to grapple with epidemiologic issues as participants. This approach to teaching epidemiology combines faculty having both public health and clinical perspectives, emphasizes relevance to future practice, and requires students to actively work through epidemiologic problems. The Vermont experience has shown that combining health department and clinical faculty resources can result in a useful format for teaching epidemiology to medical students.
-
Subject:
-
Pubmed ID:3927384
-
Pubmed Central ID:PMCnull
-
Document Type:
-
Place as Subject:
-
Collection(s):
-
Main Document Checksum:urn:sha256:4c3cf266d1cdd3082c51259ece2338930a6affa40aedd888fa9406281ce2c21e
-
Download URL:
-
File Type:
Supporting Files
-
No Additional Files
More +
Related Documents
-
Personal Author:Maloney, S K ;Petersen, D J1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):368-370Description:In the fall of 1982, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Public Health Service, engaged the services of the North American Precis S...Personal Author:Anderson, D W ;Bryan, F A...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):386-393Description:Identify persons with epilepsy by first looking for prescriptions for particular antiseizure drugs. Follow these prescriptions from the pharmacies to ...Personal Author:Janis, J M ;Detels, R...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):393-401Description:The University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, compi...Personal Author:Strobino, D M ;Kim, Y J...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):417-427Description:Linked birth and death records provided the population for an investigation of declines in nonwhite and white neonatal mortality rates (NMR) in Missis...Personal Author:Morelock, S ;Hingson, R W...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):357-363Description:Less than one-fifth of the U.S. population consistently wears automobile seatbelts. Automatic seatbelts or air bags will be required in all new cars, ...Personal Author:Brown, Stuart T. ;Anderson, Linda W....1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):374-378Description:Within the last decade, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has increasingly emphasized environmental public health activities. The Center for Envir...Personal Author:Risser, N L ;Belcher, D W...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):439-445Description:Tuberculin skin testing is an accurate, inexpensive screening procedure for detecting tuberculosis infection. The return visit needed to interpret the...Personal Author:Kleinstein, R N ;Gordon, A...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):364-368Description:All 319 participants of an intensive continuing education course on optometric hypertension screening at the University of Alabama at Birmingham were ...Personal Author:Barber-Madden, R ;Randolph, L1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):432-439Description:With the passage of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act and the establishment of the block grant system in 1981, responsibility for the direction of many p...Personal Author:Krishan, I ;Drummond, D C...1985 Jul-Aug | Public Health Rep. 100(4):379-386Description:Prevalence studies of the use of ambulatory health care services have consistently reported relatively lower demand for services in rural areas. Such ...
More +
You May Also Like
Personal Author:
Rosenberg, S N ;
Schorow, M
...
1978 Nov-Dec | Public Health Rep. 93(6):673-677
Description:
An experimental course for third-year medical students, held at Columbia University, was aimed at enlisting larger numbers of future clinicians in the...
Personal Author:
Arvelo, Wences ;
Gura, Zeinab
...
November 16 2014 | PEPFAR
Description:
Medical students have limited exposure to field epidemiology, even though will assume public health roles after graduation. We established a 10-week e...
Checkout today's featured content at stacks.cdc.gov