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

• Váldodahkkit: Wences Arvelo (Dahkki), Zeinab Gura (Dahkki), Samuel Amwayi (Dahkki), Petra Wiersma (Dahkki), Jared Omolo (Dahkki), Steven Becknell (Dahkki), Donna Jones (Dahkki), Dismas Ongore (Dahkki), Richard Dicker (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: 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...