Specific activities should be developed through dialogue between faculty, preceptor and student. Special emphasis should be placed on population-based practice and identification of interventions on a community and systems level of practice.
Example of Activities
Have students keep a log of their hours, include a reflective portion that describes what they did, what their goals are, and any questions for the preceptors.
Have students set outcomes for their project with their preceptor and formalize in an agreement or contract.
Review the global, national, local, sports, life, health, and business sections of a local or national newspaper
• Identify six public health issues in at least three sections.
• Describe the impact of each identified issue on public health.
• Identify the level of public health prevention related to the issue.
• Describe the impact on the community if public health intervention did not occur for the identified issue (e.g., premature deaths, intimate partner violence, unemployment, poor housing conditions, new manufacturing plant moving into the area, teen pregnancy, high school drop-outs, food recall, or heat-related sport illnesses). Continue reading this post…
