Journal article
Changing the culture of a medical school by orienting students and faculty toward community medicine
Academic medicine, Vol.89(12), pp.1630-1635
12/01/2014
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000463
PMID: 25162616
Abstract
Oklahoma's health status has been ranked among the worst in the country. In 1972, the University of Oklahoma established the Tulsa branch of its College of Medicine (COM) to expand the physician workforce for northeastern Oklahoma and to provide care for the uninsured patients of the area. In 2008, the Tulsa branch launched a distinct educational track, the University of Oklahoma COM's School of Community Medicine (SCM), to prepare providers equipped and committed to addressing prevalent health disparities.The authors describe the Tulsa branch's Summer Institute (SI), a signature program of the SCM, and how it is part of SCM's process of institutional transformation to align its education, service, and research missions toward improving the health status of the entire region. The SI is a weeklong, prematriculation immersion experience in community medicine. It brings entering medical and physician assistant students together with students and faculty from other disciplines to develop a shared culture of community medicine. The SI uses an unconventional curriculum, based on Scharmer's Theory U, which emphasizes appreciative inquiry, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving. Also, the curriculum includes Professional Meaning conversations, small-group sessions to facilitate the integration of students' observations into their professional identities and commitments. Development of prototypes of a better health care system enables participants to learn by doing and to bring community medicine to life.The authors describe these and other curricular elements of the SI, present early evaluation data, and discuss the curriculum's incremental evolution. A longitudinal outcomes evaluation is under way.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Changing the culture of a medical school by orienting students and faculty toward community medicine
- Creators
- F Daniel Duffy - Cancer Prevention and ControlJulie E Miller-Cribbs - University of OklahomaGerard P Clancy - University of OklahomaC Justin Van De Wiele - University of OklahomaT Kent Teague - Preclinical Translational Cancer ResearchSheila Crow - University of OklahomaElizabeth A Kollaja - University of OklahomaMark D Fox - University of Oklahoma
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, Vol.89(12), pp.1630-1635
- DOI
- 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000463
- PMID
- 25162616
- ISSN
- 1040-2446
- eISSN
- 1938-808X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Emergency Medicine; Medicine Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984280865602771
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