Establishing a field epidemiology elective for medical students in Kenya: A strategy for increasing public health awareness and workforce capacity

• Главные авторы: Wences Arvelo (Автор), Zeinab Gura (Автор), Samuel Amwayi (Автор), Petra Wiersma (Автор), Jared Omolo (Автор), Steven Becknell (Автор), Donna Jones (Автор), Dismas Ongore (Автор), Richard Dicker (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Medical students have limited exposure to field epidemiology, even though will assume public health roles after graduation. We established a 10-week elective in field epidemiology during medical school. Students attended one-week didactic sessions on epidemiology, and nine weeks in field placement s...