Teaching Community Health Assessment Skills in a Problem-based Format.

Sass, Pamela; Edelsack, Pyser

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Publication Date: 2001

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Teaching Community Health Assessment Skills in a Problem-based Format.

Sass, Pamela; Edelsack, Pyser

Academic Medicine, v76 n1 p88-91 Jan 2001

Describes a four-week rotation at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn in which medical residents are taught community health assessment using a problem-based format. They use demographic and health data to create rates they believe will help to illuminate the health status and health issues of their assigned community. (EV)

Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Demography, Evaluation, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Public Health

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Language: English

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