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

• Main Authors: Wences Arvelo (Author), Zeinab Gura (Author), Samuel Amwayi (Author), Petra Wiersma (Author), Jared Omolo (Author), Steven Becknell (Author), Donna Jones (Author), Dismas Ongore (Author), Richard Dicker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...