| DESCRIPTION : Health promotion and disease prevention is an important part of patient care in many areas of medicine: primary care fields and other specialties. All physicians can enrich their regular practice by including aspects of this approach in supplementary ways.
This Area of Concentration is organized to meet the individual educational and career goals of each student. Both requirements and options have been flexibly designed to respond to these goals. Each student participating in this AoC will work closely with an advisor to develop a plan that will facilitate their personal objectives in terms of coursework and clinical experiences. A curriculum could emphasize several perspectives such as an indivdual specialty (i.e., pediatrics, family medicine, cardiology), a subject (i.e., sports medicine, smoking prevention), policy, community service, public health or other areas of students interest.
In addition, the AoC in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention provides an opportunity to actively impact the community ad promote healthy lifestyles while developing personal skills necessary for this pursuit. The AoC encourages the medical student to learn to take care of himself/herself and thus better care for patients.
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