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M A Seabrook1, H Lempp, S J Woodfield
1Department of General Practice & Primary Care, Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London, UK.
Objectives:
Recent reports have stressed the importance of developing medical students' understanding of primary and community care and their ability to work in health-care teams.
Design:
An innovative 3-year project aimed to achieve this understanding by broadening the range of health-care professionals and community organizations contributing to the medical curriculum.
Setting:
King's College School of Medicine, London.
Subjects:
Undergraduate medical students.
Results:
Through partnerships with three local community health care trusts, non-medical health care disciplines in the teaching hospital and a range of voluntary and statutory services, students have been introduced to a broader spectrum of care. This has taken place both within the core curriculum and through the development of special study modules.
Conclusions:
Involving teachers and organizations which have not traditionally contributed to medical education raises philosophical issues around the aims and rationale of their involvement and practical issues such as gaining curriculum time, recruiting suitable teachers and gaining credibility for the courses. We analyse the benefits and difficulties inherent in broadening the curriculum in this way and assess the lessons our experience provides for the future expansion of such learning, both locally and nationally.
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