Andrus Noelle C, Bennett Nancy M
Center for Rochester's Health, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 614, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Acad Med. 2006 Apr;81(4):326-31. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200604000-00005.
To successfully meet the nation's changing health needs, future health professionals must learn skills in applied health promotion and disease prevention. To achieve these goals, the Center for Rochester's Health (the Center), a collaboration of the Monroe County Department of Public Health and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and School of Nursing, all located in Rochester, New York, developed an innovative education program that gives interdisciplinary teams of students opportunities to partner with community agencies engaged in research-oriented health improvement initiatives. The Center started this course in 1998, under the auspices of a national initiative supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The authors discuss the challenges related to the implementation and institutionalization of this interdisciplinary population-based education program. They describe their experiences over a seven-year period, from 1998 to 2005, including the various factors that enabled them to make necessary changes in the program activities and the ways in which the Center was able to bring departments together to consider new course directions for engaging students in the community health improvement process. They discuss the different stages of program development, including the early years of program planning and later curriculum changes that involved the development of an online population health curriculum. The authors conclude that by understanding changes in the education goals of various health professions schools and by adapting education programs to meet the needs of students from these schools, program planners will have more opportunities to sustain community-based education programs.
为了成功满足国家不断变化的健康需求，未来的健康专业人员必须学习应用健康促进和疾病预防方面的技能。为实现这些目标，位于纽约罗切斯特的门罗县公共卫生部、罗切斯特大学医学院和牙科学院以及护理学院合作成立了罗切斯特健康中心（以下简称“中心”），该中心开发了一项创新教育计划，为跨学科学生团队提供机会，使其与参与以研究为导向的健康改善计划的社区机构合作。该中心于1998年在卫生资源与服务管理局和医疗保健改善研究所支持的一项全国性倡议的主持下开设了这门课程。作者讨论了与这一基于人群的跨学科教育计划的实施和制度化相关的挑战。他们描述了1998年至2005年这七年间的经历，包括促使他们对计划活动做出必要改变的各种因素，以及中心能够将各部门聚集在一起，共同考虑让学生参与社区健康改善过程的新课程方向的方式。他们讨论了计划发展的不同阶段，包括计划规划的早期阶段以及后来涉及在线人群健康课程开发的课程变化。作者得出结论，通过了解各健康专业学校教育目标的变化，并使教育计划适应这些学校学生的需求，计划规划者将有更多机会维持基于社区的教育计划。
