From Primary Care to Public Health: Using Problem-Based Learning and the Ecological Model to Teach Public Health to First Year Medical Students

We investigated whether a public health-oriented Problem-Based Learning case presented to first-year medical students conveyed 12 “Population Health Competencies for Medical Students,” as recommended by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Ce...

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Published in:Journal of community health 2012-06, Vol.37 (3), p.647-652
Main Authors: Hoover, Cora R., Wong, Candice C., Azzam, Amin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Competence
Community and Environmental Psychology
Content analysis
Ecological models
Education, Medical - methods
Ethics
Experiential Learning
Health education
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Humans
Learning Theories
Medical Education
Medical schools
Medical Students
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Models, Educational
Original Paper
Primary Health Care
Problem-Based Learning
Program Evaluation
Public health
Public Health - education
Students
Students, Medical - psychology
Teaching - methods
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Summary:We investigated whether a public health-oriented Problem-Based Learning case presented to first-year medical students conveyed 12 “Population Health Competencies for Medical Students,” as recommended by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Centers. A public health-oriented Problem-Based Learning case guided by the ecological model paradigm was developed and implemented among two groups of 8 students at the University of California, Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, in the Fall of 2010. Using directed content analysis, student-generated written reports were coded for the presence of the 12 population health content areas. Students generated a total of 29 reports, of which 20 (69%) contained information relevant to at least one of the 12 population health competencies. Each of the 12 content areas was addressed by at least one report. As physicians-in-training prepare to confront the challenges of integrating prevention and population health with clinical practice, Problem-Based Learning is a promising tool to enhance medical students’ engagement with public health.
ISSN:0094-5145
1573-3610
DOI:10.1007/s10900-011-9495-y