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6 Approaches to Health Education
6 Approaches to Health Education
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INTEGRATED MEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Presenter: Keith Yamamoto Describing the integrated medical research training at the University of California as a work in progress, Yamamoto focused on the vision that the University of California at San Francisco has for integrating health science training with research. He suggested that institutions that enhance the opportunities for physicians and Ph.D.
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The Institute for Molecular Medicine and the Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine Medical Curriculum The new medical curriculum integrates basic, clinical, and social and behavioral sciences throughout the medical school's four-year course of study. Students often work in small groups, and their instruction emphasizes problem solving and the relationships between research and clinical outcomes.
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5. Community interactions Program in Quantitative Biology This graduate program in biomedical research was designed to attract faculty and students from the physical sciences, mathematics, computation, and engineering.
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HEALTH EDUCATION IN IRAN Presenter: Mohammad Reza Zali With the establishment of a primary health care system throughout Iran during the period from 1980 to 2003, life expectancy increased dramatically, maternal and infant mortality decreased dramatically, and the rate of population growth slowed substantially. Now Iran's population has a large percentage of young people and also a growing number of the elderly.
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SOURCE: M Zali, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
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Increases in the amount of patient-oriented and disease-oriented research, including both basic and clinical research Notably, biomedical research citations from Iran have increased sharply since about the year 2000. Curricular Reform in Undergraduate Medical Education In an effort to help improve medical education in Iran, the University of Shaheed Beheshti undertook a pilot study on the reform of medical school curricula.
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Mohammad Reza Zali emphasized the key role played by specially trained clinical preceptors. They work with medical students in supervised learning facilities, skill laboratories, and ambulatory clinical training; and they provide guidance about learning portfolios and logbooks, educational prescriptions, and study guides.
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He quoted from Plato's The Laws, written in 490 B.C.: "Good clinical medicine is a marriage of scientific knowledge and human care." SUPERCOURSE -- THE GLOBAL HEALTH NETWORK Presenter: Ali Ardalan, with Ronald LaPorte by Telephone The last presentation covered Supercourse, the open source Internet library developed under the leadership of Janice Dorman and Ronald LaPorte at the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. Other developers include Ali Ardalan, Faina Linkov, Mita Lovelekar, Francois Sauer, and Julia Shubuikova.
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The site includes a number of ways to search for articles, including an option called "New Lectures." Ardalan specifically recommended viewing the lecture called "The Golden Lecture of Prevention." Improving Disaster and Public Health Education Worldwide One way to improve disaster education and public health education is to share effective lectures and slide presentations for free. The Supercourse does this.
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Nosratollah Naderi, a preceptor in the program, said that the reform program has been successful in providing students with the knowledge they need to treat their patients and to solve problems. Integration of Medical Research Training Government Approval of Programs Participants noted that if the government must approve program changes, as is the case in Iran, it can substantially delay the implementation of plans.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- that it is better to have an expert global network and expert content available before a food-associated outbreak occurs than to accumulate the information afterward.
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