F. Lefford et al., A SURVEY OF MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATE COMMUNITY-BASED TEACHING - TAKING UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING INTO THE COMMUNITY, Medical education, 28(4), 1994, pp. 312-315
This article summarizes the findings of a survey investigating the ext
ent to which medical schools in the United Kingdom have developed comm
unity-based undergraduate teaching: the types of courses being run and
their content; whether they are being evaluated; and how the students
are assessed. Courses have been categorized under four main headings:
(1) based in general practice, for teaching about general practice as
a clinical specialty or using practice patients for teaching general
medicine and basic clinical skills; (2) community-oriented, led by GP
or community tutors; (3) specialist teaching led by hospital consultan
ts; and (4) agency-based teaching. Twenty-eight schools responded to a
written request for information and details of 83 courses were receiv
ed.