Teaching Medicine in the Community

This is a well written, easy to read book ... This book will be helpful to those who have already been involved in teaching in the community and to the many future teachers who will be needed now that so much more treatment and investigation is done outside hospital.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Contemporary approaches to education and learning ; 3. Objectives of undergraduate medical education ; 4. Learning objectives for the community ; 5. One to one teaching ; 6. Learning on one's own: projects and independent tasks ; 7. Learning in small groups ; 8. Lectures and laboratories ; 9. Choosing an approach ; 10. Learning how to assess the needs of a population ; 11. Learning about the family ; 12. Learning about health promotion and prevention ; 13. Learning about disease, illness, and treatment ; 14. Learning how to assess patients ; 15. Learning about ethics ; 16. The Family Attachment Scheme at Queen's University, Belfast ; 17. The community module ; 18. Patients as partners in medical education ; 19. An integrated course in public health and primary care ; 20. The King's Medical Firm in the Community ; 21. Developing an experimental parallel track medical course ; 22. Teaching cultural apsects of health ; 23. Shadowing other professionals ; 24. Mental health in the community ; 25. Audit projects ; 26. Student completed records of learning ; 27. The purpose of assessing medical students ; 28. Principles of assessment ; 29. Assessing knowledge ; 30. Assessing clinical skills ; 31. Assessing communication skills ; 32. Guidelines for assessing clinical competence ; 33. Evaluating the curriculum ; 34. Demonstrating the benefits ; 35. Changing education in the 21st century