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Educating health professionals in a community setting: what students value
M F Oneha1, C M Yoshimoto, S Bell
1Community Health Services Department, Wainae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Wai'anae, HI 96792, USA. moneha@Hawaii.edu
Education for Health (Abingdon, England)
|January 27, 2004
Summary
Former health professions students valued multiprofessional education, community settings, and cultural understanding. This experience fostered personal and professional growth, leading many to practice in underserved areas.
Area of Science:
- Health Professions Education
- Community Health
Background:
- Shift towards community-based health professions education.
- Hawai'i's participation in the Community Partnerships for Health Professions Education program.
- Focus on collaboration between community health centers, communities, and health professions schools.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify valuable components of a community health professions education experience.
- To explore the impact of the Ke Ola O Hawai'i program on former students' practice.
Main Methods:
- Survey distributed to 65 former students from one community health center site.
- Questions focused on impactful experiences, additional feedback, and future career plans.
- Response rate of 46% (30 responses).
Main Results:
- Key impactful components: multiprofessional approach, community setting/contact, and understanding community culture.
- Significant personal and professional growth reported by participants.
- Majority of respondents planned to practice in community-based, rural, or underserved areas.
Conclusions:
- Findings support the development of sustainable, community-based, multiprofessional curricula.
- The program's components are relevant to current health care practice needs.
- Highlights the importance of experiential learning in diverse community settings.