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CBME: Community Based Medical Education
The importance of this relationship to a student's learning is one of the reasons why problem-based learning (PBL) has proven so popular with pre-clinical students. It brings basic science into meaningful relationship with clinical decisions. In the clinical years the stimulus to get back to the basic sciences most powerfully occurs from the responsibility of having to make clinical decisions with real people, and it follows that students need access to appropriate patients. A community-based attachment can easily provide the necessary case-mix. To maximise the potential of CBME learning resources need to be available to the student where the patients are, not only in classrooms, libraries and computer laboratories. Advances in electronic media and flexible delivery of education have greatly facilitated this relationship. The credible presence of community-based students can enhance the relationship between the university and the community. A key issue is provision of funding to allow community-based supervisors time to teach. Other viewpoints on this aspect of Community-based Medical
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This
R represents the relationship between the fundamental priorities
of the two key institutions involved in medical education - the
research evidence base of the university and the clinical care and
patient management responsibilities of the health service.|
Updated June 13, 2007 |