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Do you think your school’s program is addressing health disparity issues? If not, how can you change the curriculum so that disparity topics are addressed?
posted by Health Disparities Education Core @ 12:03 PM
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Project EXPORT Center for Excellence in Rural Health University of IL College of Medicine-Rockford
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Yes, I believe my school does well on educating the medical students on health disparties. The Rural Medicine Program does an especially wonderful job on teaching the Rmed students about health disparties they will face in rural Illinois. I also here that in the clinics, the preceptors do a great job educating students on health disparties.
C.M.D.
I do not beieve my school has adequately covered the issues regarding health disparities. I have little to no education regarding health disparities among the rural or urban populations. I feel the school should place a higher importance on these aspects.
s.d.
I guess I hadn't really heard too much about health disparities at my school. We did talk about people at risk for disease and that sort of thing but not like what I've learned here. I think that in our program we need to cover it a bit more and especially the needs in the surrounding area.
I.T.
I think all the schools that I have attended from middle school, to high school, to even college, have addressed health disparities to a certain extent in both educating us on the topics and creating programs to address the community’s needs. I especially learned a lot in my college’s health courses where I was introduced to projects like Healthy People 2010, and creating interventions/grant proposals for healthcare needs.
As far as the curriculum is concerned especially in elementary, middle, or high schools, I would encourage science teachers to have a section on learning about such disparities concerning the general trends of all the international, national, state-wide, and local disparities. In college, this might be a bit harder to enforce since each course is catered to an individual subject. However, perhaps in biology, philosophy, sociology, or any of the allied health professions, it might be feasible to have a section or an extra credit assignment regarding disparities.
- SP
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