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Aditi Aikat1, Arup Chakraborty2, Kalyan Kumar Paul3
1Professor, Department of Community Medicine, JIMSH, Kolkata, India.
Background:
The family adoption program has been inculcated in the undergraduate medical curriculum vide the March 2022 directives to ensure community-based hands-on experience from the beginning and increase the availability and accessibility of doctors or medical professionals in the rural areas and is currently in a nascent phase of implementation across the various medical colleges in India.
Objectives:
To assess the challenges faced while implementing the new initiative of family adoption over three and a half years and possible solutions offered by the faculties of Community Medicine of various colleges of West Bengal based on their hands-on experience.
Materials And Methods:
A cross-sectional qualitative study was carried out among the Community Medicine faculty representatives from 24 medical colleges in West Bengal. After due informed consent, they were interviewed by a panel of senior faculty members based on a semi-structured questionnaire. A qualitative thematic content analysis was carried out to identify the major themes involved.
Result:
The four themes emerging were sustainability of adopted families, human resources and other Logistics issues, logbook proto-type, and building on previous successful implementation of family visits. Various modifications were mentioned by different respondents.
Discussion And Conclusion:
Despite the different deterring issues noted, solutions by the implementers themselves that can have far-reaching implications were identified. A successful implementation of FAP can make a difference in public health, and develop Indian Medical Graduates competent to serve the community at their best.
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