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Teaching primary health care: some lessons from Zimbabwe
Author(s) -
WATERSTON T.,
SANDERS D.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1987.tb00506.x
Subject(s) - primary health care , primary care , medicine , medical education , psychology , nursing , family medicine , environmental health , population
Summary. 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.