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

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...

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Autores principales: Arvelo, Wences, Gura, Zeinab, Amwayi, Samuel, Wiersma, Petra, Omolo, Jared, Becknell, Steven, Jones, Donna, Ongore, Dismas, Dicker, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Atlantis Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25700921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2014.10.002