TY - JOUR
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Curriculum
KW - Educational Measurement
KW - Educational Status
KW - Humans
KW - Inservice Training/methods
KW - Internship and Residency
KW - Learning
KW - New York City
KW - Primary Health Care/methods
KW - Social Medicine/education
KW - Teaching
KW - Urban Health Services
KW - Urban Population
AU - A. Fornari
AU - M. Anderson
AU - S. Simon
AU - E. Korin
AU - D. Swiderski
AU - A. H. Strelnick
A1 - 
AB - BACKGROUND: Primary care educators face the challenge of teaching the social context of health and disease to clinicians. DESCRIPTION: Since 1975, the Residency Program in Social Medicine has trained clinicians to practice in urban underserved communities. During Orientation Month, 1st-year residents are relieved of inpatient duties and participate in learning activities addressing social and cultural aspects of health. Learning objectives include understanding patients' social context, their community, and the role of physicians as professionals. Recent innovations include incorporating an overall theme, weekly case studies, "triple jump" exercises, community mapping projects, patient-led community tours, and theme-specific visits to community institutions (e.g., prisons). EVALUATION: Residents complete weekly formative evaluations, a summative evaluation, and narrative reflections. Faculty complete an evaluative questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: Orientation is a highly rated and valued part of our curriculum. Its success derives from ongoing curricular innovation and evolution, a departmental commitment to social medicine, and positive community response to our learners' interest and energy.
BT - Teaching and learning in medicine
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 1
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/10401334.2011.536898
IS - 1
JF - Teaching and learning in medicine
N2 - BACKGROUND: Primary care educators face the challenge of teaching the social context of health and disease to clinicians. DESCRIPTION: Since 1975, the Residency Program in Social Medicine has trained clinicians to practice in urban underserved communities. During Orientation Month, 1st-year residents are relieved of inpatient duties and participate in learning activities addressing social and cultural aspects of health. Learning objectives include understanding patients' social context, their community, and the role of physicians as professionals. Recent innovations include incorporating an overall theme, weekly case studies, "triple jump" exercises, community mapping projects, patient-led community tours, and theme-specific visits to community institutions (e.g., prisons). EVALUATION: Residents complete weekly formative evaluations, a summative evaluation, and narrative reflections. Faculty complete an evaluative questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: Orientation is a highly rated and valued part of our curriculum. Its success derives from ongoing curricular innovation and evolution, a departmental commitment to social medicine, and positive community response to our learners' interest and energy.
PP - England
PY - 2011
SN - 1532-8015; 1040-1334
SP - 85
EP - 89
EP - 
T1 - Learning social medicine in the Bronx: an orientation for primary care residents
T2 - Teaching and learning in medicine
TI - Learning social medicine in the Bronx: an orientation for primary care residents
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 21240789
U3 - 10.1080/10401334.2011.536898
VL - 23
VO - 1532-8015; 1040-1334
Y1 - 2011
ER -