Harrity S, Jackson M, Hoffman H, Catanzaro A
School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego 92103, USA.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2007 Mar;11(3):270-4.
The National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium (NTCC) seeks to instill knowledge, skills, and appropriate attitudes in the management and control of tuberculosis (TB) among students in the health professions. Unlike other organizations that have produced quality educational materials aimed at practicing clinicians, public health workers, and the general public, the NTCC is primarily focused on undergraduate and graduate education. The NTCC includes geographically disparate faculty from schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, respiratory therapy, clinical laboratory sciences, and physician assistant who are experts in the areas of TB, curriculum development, and educational computing. Collaboration occurs through meetings, phone conferences and an innovative web portal that provides a work zone used to develop, organize, and archive products and resources. A critical accomplishment of the Consortium has been the development of core competencies for TB education for graduates in each of the health care disciplines. Those for medical schools are presented in this article. Current NTCC efforts are directed at developing interactive materials for TB education that can be accessed by multi-disciplinary faculty, nationally and abroad. The collaborative effort of the NTCC serves as a model for future endeavors to strengthen curricula, particularly pertaining to health concerns that are best served by multi-disciplinary approaches.
国家结核病课程联盟（NTCC）旨在向卫生专业学生传授结核病（TB）管理与控制方面的知识、技能和正确态度。与其他为执业临床医生、公共卫生工作者和普通大众制作高质量教育材料的组织不同，NTCC主要专注于本科和研究生教育。NTCC成员包括来自医学院、护理学院、药学院、公共卫生学院、呼吸治疗专业、临床检验科学专业以及医师助理专业的教师，他们在地理上分布广泛，且都是结核病、课程开发和教育计算领域的专家。合作通过会议、电话会议以及一个创新的网络门户进行，该网络门户提供了一个工作区，用于开发、组织和存档产品及资源。该联盟的一项重要成果是为每个卫生保健学科的毕业生制定了结核病教育的核心能力要求。医学院的核心能力要求在本文中列出。NTCC目前的工作重点是开发结核病教育的互动材料，供国内外多学科教师使用。NTCC的合作努力为未来加强课程设置的工作树立了榜样，尤其是在那些最适合采用多学科方法解决的健康问题方面。
