| The interdepartmental community health programme of the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital (Thailand), aims at providing medical students with the skills and knowledge required to determine the health needs of a community, to design appropriate health care programmes, and to perform effectively as health centre physicians. Training takes place at a rural health centre, and this summary outlines the five courses offered: (I)health demographic surveillance; (2)analysis of community health problems; (3)community health planning; (4)"clerkship" in community health (general participation in health centre activities); and (5)internship rotation (including administrative aspects of national health care system, and the roles and responsibilities of physicians and other icine, London. Change in tropical medicine and health workers). The major goal is to motivate students public health teaching. Central African Journal of to view heal not just in terms of doctors practicMedicine (Salisbury, Rhodesia), 9(2), Feb 1963, ing curative medicine but in terms of community health 74-75. Engl. care: "the provision of comprehensive, integrated health care (curative, preventive, and promotive)to offered by the London School of Hygiene and defined population group by a team of health workers, Tropical Medicine as of October 1963. They are the led by a physician." |