Teaching primary health care: some lessons from Zimbabwe |
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| Authors: | T WATERSTON D SANDERS |
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| Institution: | Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Harare |
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| Abstract: | A new teaching programme for fourth-year medical students in child health in Harare, Zimbabwe is outlined. A 2-week attachment to a rural district-level hospital is intended to orient the students to primary health care and to the practice of clinical medicine in a low resource environment. The attachment has become popular with students and it is hoped that it will improve attitudes of teaching staff in the medical school towards primary health care. |
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| Keywords: | *Primary health care teaching/*methods *education medical undergraduate paediatrics/educ Zimbabwe hospitals rural educational assessment |
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