Community based medical education in medical curriculum

Abstract

Community-based education (CBE) is now recognized as an important addition to the methods available in medical education, because the skills of graduates are needed in the community more than in the tertiary hospital. The purpose of the current review was to explore the importance of the community based medical education in present competency based medical education. A total of 24 articles similar to the current study objectives were identified initially, of which 4 were excluded due to the unavailability of the complete version of the articles. Overall, 14 articles were selected based on the suitability with the current review objectives and analyzed. Keywords used in the search include community based medical education and community oriented medical education. The collected information is presented under the following subheadings, namely reasons for medical institutions involved in community based medical education, taxonomy of CBE, challenges in the implementation of community based medical education, steps for implementation the community based medical education, benefit to students. Taxonomy of community based medical education divided into three categories, primarily service-oriented research oriented and training focused. When implementing the community based medical education so many challenges faced some of the challenges are transport problem, no cooperation among the community leaders and no interested among the students. In CBME students an opportunity to learn and work with other health professionals in, for instance, primary care units. Faculties have responsibility to move the medical education settings from hospital to community based medical education.