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New Mexico's Primary Care Curriculum
Pages 269-271

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From page 269...
... Based on Art's experience with clinical electives in the first 2 years, which had been demonstrated to improve students attitudes toward the basic sciences, we proposed a curriculum track designed to select and educate physicians who would locate in rural areas and be competent in providing primary care. With the aid of both a planning and an implementation grant from the W
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From page 270...
... Carl Rogers, in Freedfom to Learn, noted that "placing the student in direct experiential confrontation with practical problems, social problems, ethical and philosophical problems, personal issues and research problems is one of the most effective modes of promoting learning." Alfred North Whitehead also observed, in The Aims of Edification, that '~your learning is useless to you till you have lost your textbooks, burnt your lecture notes and forgotten the minutiae which you learnt by heart for the examination.... The function of a university is to enable you tO shed details in favor of principles." The Primary Care Curriculum, which accepted its first class of 10 students in August 1979, is a separate tract in the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
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From page 271...
... 1 nese VlSltS may lnvo .ve reviewing the students' learning issues and assisting in smoothing the preceptor-student interaction around learning, since for many preceptors this style of learning for medical students is a new experience. For the first class of to students, 8 felt the experience strengthened their desire for a rural primary care practice, l was unsure, and l felt a rural specialty practice may be more to his liking.
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