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This paper describes the development of consultancy groups in behavioral science, epidemiology and biostatistics, and information science in a required community medicine rotation with a twenty year history. The addition of consultants to individual student tutors and field preceptors has led to a structure which promotes student-project flexibility, development of critical assessment skills and independent learning while maximizing faculty expertise and effectiveness.
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Alan Silver is Assistant Chairman and Education Director of the Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of The City University of New York. Clyde Schechter and Virginia Walther are the Co-directors of the third year community medicine clerkship. Kurt Deuschle is Professor and past chairman of the Department of Community Medicine.
The authors wish to thank current and former clerkship directors and consultants for their invaluable skills in the ongoing evolution of the clerkship. These include Samuel J. Bosch, Bess Dana, James Godbold, George Jackson, Harriet Meiss, David Rose, Edward Speedling and Jean Sullivant.
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Silver, A., Schechter, C., Walther, V. et al. Development of faculty consultants in a problem-based third year community medicine clerkship. J Community Health 16, 133–141 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323971
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323971