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Departments of Family Practice as Vehicles for Promoting COPC
Pages 264-268

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From page 264...
... The view has been expressed that it was "the most significant development in medical education since the Flexner Report." Many medical schools since the 1960s have adapted aspects of the curriculum, while McMaster University in Canada and the University of Limburg at Maastricht in the Netherlands have gone even further in their integration. The spirit of readiness to try new ideas at Case Western Reserve University continued, and in 1974, under Dean Frederick C
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From page 265...
... The current challenge is to distill and synthesize information, concepts, and methods from the disciplines represented by these affiliations, especially epidemiology and the behavioral sciences, in order to articulate practical approaches to community oriented primary care, which can be applied by the primary care practitioner, who usually functions without such university support. At the undergraduate level, our department and Family Practice Center serve as a site for elective Medical Apprenticeship Program (MAP)
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From page 266...
... At the graduate level our Family Practice Residency Training Program focuses its recruitment on students with urban interests and communityresponsive attitudes who are eager for community involvement and social change. Our practice center has identified a geographically bounded target area composed of 38 census tracts with a shortage of primary care health manpower.
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From page 267...
... One of the major goals of this activity has been the study of concepts of community diagnosis as an extension of individual and family diagnosis, i.e., viewing the community as a patient. We have reviewed community history and sought opinions from key informants, interest groups, political factions, local media, and individual citizens (including our own patients)
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From page 268...
... Through this diagnostic process, we are developing a problem list and a small number of interventions or plans that we feel are "community-responsive." Another goal of this process is the development of a "community diagnostic tool kit" to be used by our residents in training and in their own communities after graduation. Hopefully, it can be adapted for use by any physician or health care worker committed tO community oriented primary care.
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Key Terms

  • western reserve
  • cuyahoga county
  • family medicine
  • county hospital
  • community oriented

  • residency training
  • oriented primary
  • community diagnosis
  • lead levels
  • community outreach

  • health department
  • outreach project
  • practice center
  • community project
  • endemic lead

  • hispanic community
  • major contributions
  • family psychiatry
  • status equal
  • agency data

  • reviewed community
  • spent july
  • community resources
  • educational program
  • care practitioner

  • explanatory models
  • disciplines represented
  • august assisting
  • especially epidemiology
  • screening program


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