What impact does community service learning have on medical students' appreciation of population health?

Public Health

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1444-1451

  Essa Hadad, J ^a   Murdoch Eaton, D ^b   Rudolf, M C J ^a  

^a Bar Ilan Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curriculum development community oriented learning; Medical education; Public health; Social accountability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CURRICULUM; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELIGION; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRESS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEAMWORK; YOUNG ADULT; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; ISRAEL; LEARNING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946491122     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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