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Title: The Community Health Outreach and Family Study Programme


1
The Community Health Outreach and Family Study
Programme
  • Dr.Joan Rawlins
  • Senior Lecturer/Outreach Coordinator
  • Public Health and Primary Care Unit
  • Dept of Paraclinical Sciences
  • FMS, UWI. St Augustine

2
Rationale
  • Evidence from recent research in medical
    education indicates that students should be
    trained early in their education programmes in
    aspects of
  • critical thinking
  • reflection and
  • empathy, by allowing them the opportunity of
    going through an experience and thinking
    carefully about the outcomes.

3
Rationale contd
  • This enables them not only to narrate what has
    happened, but to
  • encourage an analysis of the events and
  • identify how these events have contributed to
    the outcomes
  • and how this experience can be applied to solve
    similar problems in the other situations.
  • The Community Health Outreach and Family study
    proposes to achieve this type of analysis

4
Family Study
  •  
  • The Family Study is an educational experience
    that has been successfully applied in a number of
    medical schools, one being The Faculty of
    Medicine, University of New Castle on Tyne, UK.

5
The Family Study
  • Through this process the student should learn
    about the socio-cultural effects of childbirth in
    the family and how these interactions can affect
    the child.
  • The student will also have the opportunity to
    study at first hand the various biological and
    developmental events that occur during pregnancy
    and early childhood.

6
Learning Outcomes (Summarized)
  • By the end of the project, the students should
    have studied at first hand over a period of
    time, social, biological and health events
    related to childbirth in a small group of
    families in a real-life situation
  • studied the psychosocial impact on the family on
    having a baby and the possible effects of these
    on the baby.

7
Learning Outcomes Summarized (Contd)
  • experienced group interactions by working with a
    number of his/hercolleagues
  • practised some of the communication skills
    introduced and discussed during the preclinical
    courses
  • been involved in some ethical considerations
    relevant to the type of data he/she collects
    during the study

8
Programme
  • Students attend 6 hours of Lectures (over a two
    (2) week period) as they prepare for the Health
    Centre and ( Family Study) Exercise.
  •  

9
Lectures
  • Introduction to the Outreach and Family Study
  • Introduction to Community Health Services
  • Caribbean Family Health and Social Concerns
  • Family Dynamics
  • HIV and the community
  • Gender and Health The public Health Perspective

10
Health Centre visits
  • Thereafter students are rotated in groups of four
    (4) through the Health Centres (Arima, Arouca
    and Maloney)
  • Each week 28 students (7 groups) attend the
    Health Centres for their Family Study Visit
  • Each group of four students interviews and
    studies two (2) antenatal clients

11
Deliverables in semester one
  • Students complete a questionnaire in relation
    to the health and family situation of the two
    (2) mothers interviewed at the (HC) and
  • They write a reflection page about their
    experience of that first visit
  • The reflection page aims at developing critical
    thinking attitude by analyzing, discussing and
    reflecting on this experience in this Programme

12
Semester 2
  • Students again attend 3 hours of lectures at the
    beginning of the semester. The lectures include
    issues of
  • Domestic Violence
  • Introduction to The Cancer Registry
  • Breast Feeeding
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • The Rape Crisis Society
  • Introduction to the older person in the family

13
Health Centre Visit
  • Thereafter the students are rotated again in
    groups of
  • (4 ) through the Health Centres.
  • During this visit they interview the antenatal
    mother (one mother this time) and examine the
    baby.
  • A schedule pertaining to Early Child Development
    is completed.
  • N.B. (A power point presentation of work sheet A
    is available and is shown and discussed with the
    students before they go to the community)

14
Reflection page
  • Students again complete a reflection page based
    on their expectations and the outcome of their
    meeting with the mother and new baby.

15
Assessment of Students Performance
  • The reflection pages are graded.
  • Previously the Family study was included and
    represented a significant part of the grading.
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