Community Oriented Medical Education Camps (COMEC) Theory- Medical Education in Prospective of Community Exposure to Medical Students
Keywords:
Medical Education, Health problems, COMEC, CampsAbstract
Introduction: Community approach in medical education would enable the future doctors to identify community health problems and develop the skills to resolve those using innovative ideas in medical field practices. To create learning opportunity among medical students community oriented medical education camps are of outmost value.
Method: In any medical college or institute with organizing 14 such medical education camps / exhibition one camp by each teaching department per year. It has to bear financial burden of Rs. 350000 (Rs. 25000 allotted to each camp) but it can well man- aged by collecting Rs. 500 per year per medical student as MESCOMEF.
Conclusion: By organizing medical education camps / exhibition the knowledge related to health and diseases can be displayed in public to raise the awareness besides learning health and medi- cine in public by medical students. It would be beneficial to medi- cal students and public as well.
References
Kishor J. National Health Programmes of India. 10th Ed. New Delhi: Century Publication; 2012. p. 731.
Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 1997. Pub- lished in Part III, Section of the Gazette of India Dated 17th May 1997 (Amended upto Feb. 2012). Chapter 1 (2.1– 2.8).
Sunder Lal, Adarsh, Pankaj. Text of Community Medi- cine, 4th Ed. New Delhi: CBS Publication & Distributors Pvt. Ltd.; 2014.p. 9, 22.
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