Background:MundoComm is a current NIH-funded project for sustainable public health capacity building in community engagement and technological advances aimed at improving maternal health *** to four teams are selected...
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Background:MundoComm is a current NIH-funded project for sustainable public health capacity building in community engagement and technological advances aimed at improving maternal health *** to four teams are selected annually,each consisting of three healthcare professionals and one technical person from specific low and middle income countries(LMICs)including Costa Rica,Dominican Republic,Honduras,and other *** is a course with three parts:in-person workshops,online modules,and mentored community engagement *** annual 1-week on-site“short courses”convened in Costa Rica are supplemented with six monthly online training modules using the Moodle®online platform for e-learning,and mentored project *** year-long course comprises over 20 topics divided into the six modules-each module further segmented into 4 week-long assignments,with readings and assigned tasks covering different aspects of community-engaged *** content is peer reviewed by experts in the respective fields from University of Rochester,UCIMED in Costa Rica,and faculty from Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic who maintain regular contact with the trainees to mentor learning and project *** purpose of this paper is to report the first year results of the MundoComm ***:Both quantitative and qualitative feedback(using online data capturing forms)assess baseline and posttraining knowledge and skills in public health project ***:The course currently has one team each in Costa Rica,the Dominican Republic,and Honduras for a total of 12 *** course and modules include best practices in information and communication technologies(ICTs),ethical reviews,community engagement,evidence-based community interventions,and e-Health *** maximize successful and culturally appropriate training approaches,the multi-media didactic presentations,flexible distance learning strategies,and the use of tablets for offline
Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine,as interpreted by individual family physicians a...
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Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine,as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the ***‘Ⅱ:foundational building blocks—context,community and health’,authors address the following themes:‘Context—grounding family medicine in time,place and being’,‘Recentring community’,‘Community-oriented primary care’,‘Embeddedness in practice’,‘The meaning of health’,‘Disease,illness and sickness—core concepts’,‘The biopsychosocial model’,‘The biopsychosocial approach’and‘Family medicine as social medicine.’May readers grasp new implications for medical education and practice in these essays.
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