Havas S, Rixey S, Sherwin R, Zimmerman S I, Anderson S
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201.
Public Health Rep. 1993 May-Jun;108(3):332-9.
Lifestyle risk factors play a major role in the etiology of premature mortality, morbidity, and disability in the United States. Numerous professional groups as well as the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service have recommended that increased attention be devoted to training medical students and physicians to improve their knowledge and skills in health promotion and disease prevention. Such training is critical for attaining many of the "Healthy People 2000" objectives. For a variety of reasons, however, most medical schools have had difficulty in successfully integrating preventive medicine into their clinical curriculums. This article describes the critical elements that allowed the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to accomplish this goal through its fourth year clinical preventive medicine course. The strategies employed in this course may serve as a model for other institutions to achieve the integration of preventive medicine into their clinical curriculums.
生活方式风险因素在美国过早死亡、发病和残疾的病因中起着主要作用。众多专业团体以及公共卫生服务局局长都建议，应更加重视培训医学生和医生，以提高他们在健康促进和疾病预防方面的知识和技能。此类培训对于实现许多“2000年健康人群”目标至关重要。然而，由于种种原因，大多数医学院校在将预防医学成功纳入其临床课程方面存在困难。本文介绍了马里兰大学医学院的教员通过其四年级临床预防医学课程实现这一目标的关键要素。本课程采用的策略可作为其他机构将预防医学纳入其临床课程的典范。
