Under graduate medical education aims at producing doctors who are competent in preventive, promotive and curative knowledge and skills. The community medicine curriculum in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has been designed with this objective in view. Students are given community oriented training in urban and rural settings whereby students are taught to carry out various a...

Dental education strives to balance the use of traditional teaching methods with technologically advanced systems to meet the needs of an ever-expanding curriculum. Establishing distance education technologies is an identified goal of dental education. Technologically adept students desire meaningful and efficient distance education instruction. A majority of preclinical instruction is devoted ...

Background: Lack and inequitable distribution of human resources for health (HRH) is a major health systems challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. '.2 The Partnership for Innovative Medical Education for Kenya (PRIME-Kenya) is an innovative approach that seeks to strengthen health systems by increasing linkages and collaborations in health care, health education, and health research. This approach wa...

In response to the need for culturally competent care, faculty can instill in students the desire to become culturally competent practitioners by providing the opportunity to participate in a short-term study abroad immersion experience. While this strategy is not considered cutting-edge or revolutionary, changing global dynamics warrant rethinking this curricular option. Nurse faculty conducte...

Handicap International (HI) has supported the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW), Government of Gujarat, in India for the implementation of a State-wide project for prevention, early identification, intervention and rehabilitation of disability and its complications. Despite the Gujarat health system being better developed than other Indian states health systems, disability has lar...

This paper is reformatted and reprinted as part of the 40th Anniversary of the American Journal of Health Education (originally School Health Review) Health Education – Our Heritage. The original article appeared in Volume 1, School Health Review (September 1969, pp. 9-14). At the time, Myer Herman was director of the Division of Adult Health in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He...

Cultural safety education is a concept unique to nursing in New Zealand. It involves teaching nursing students to recognize and understand the dynamics of cultural, personal, and professional power and how these shape nursing and health care relationships. This article describes the findings of a research study on the experience of teaching cultural safety. As a teacher of cultural safety, the ...

The realization that medical graduates are failing to serve the health needs of the society has compelled the medical educationists and regulatory authorities worldwide to review the medical training. A medical curriculum oriented towards developing the key competencies that enable a fresh graduate to be delivering socially responsive health care is seen as a promising step towards alleviating ...

Health care systems everywhere must tackle the problem of supplying quality health care workers to underserved areas. Except in countries that are both small and wealthy, the traditional methods of medical education and worker deployment have proven widely inadequate--and this is certainly the case in Nepal. We discuss here how alternative approaches to remedy the problem are being undertaken l...