Curriculum

The Community Science Program is designed to facilitate the students' acquisition of fundamental knowledge and skills as well as to develop attitudes appropriate to the practice of community responsive medicine.

This curriculum familiarizes students with population-based community medicine in medical practices in rural and medically underserved communities in Georgia. Students are educated in such disciplines as disease prevention, health promotion, basic epidemiology, clinical biostatistics, and evidence-based medicine. In the first two years of the campus-based curriculum, students and faculty work together in small group tutorials or seminars. During their community-based experiences, students are placed with physicians throughout Georgia who supervise experiences in clinical care, population health, and family dynamics.