TUBERCULOSIS ACADEMIC AWARD

该提案的目的是改善结核病（TB）教育， 德克萨斯大学医学分支的学生和居民， 加尔维斯顿（UTMB）医学院和卫生专业人员在 外联地点，包括国家教养设施、农村诊所 德克萨斯州和加尔维斯顿社区。 目前， 医学院课程有限，没有努力协调 这种教学，以及疾病的一些重要方面， 充分强调。 此外，UTMB不提供结核病教育项目 给校外的专业人士 许多学习经验计划， 提高卫生专业人员在诊断，管理， 控制和预防结核病。 该项目应具有长期和 影响深远，为国家和州的公共卫生做出贡献 努力控制结核病，促进实现消灭结核病的国家目标。 该项目的具体目标是：1。 建立高质量的模型 医学生和医院工作人员的课程， 学生在其他健康相关领域，其中涉及的原则和 预防、诊断、管理和控制结核病的实践， 应对与疾病相关的文化和社会问题。 这将通过整合结核病相关的讲座，案例 演示、基于计算机的互动学习练习、视听 材料，并将书面自学材料纳入课程。 2. 调整学生课程并将其传播到大学， 社区卫生专业人员和非专业观众通过指导， 在专业会议和外联方案中进行讨论，包括 制作互动录像带，传播有关结核病的信息 德克萨斯州的乡村地区 3. 制定和实施一个协调、 跨部门的方法来诊断和管理病人的 通过机构持续流程改进实现TB和UTMB 机制 一个由主要研究者领导的多学科小组， 将采用一个结核病控制方案模型（以前由一个合作机构开发， 调查员），并促进其在UTMB医院的实施。 将对拟议项目的各个方面进行仔细评估， 根据需要进行修改，以提高其有效性，信息将 与其他机构共享。 在UTMB实施结核病示范课程有几个优点。 教育干预措施将由一个多学科小组制定， 坚决致力于控制结核病。 课程改革建议 医学院将达到大量的观众，其中36%属于 一个少数群体。 UTMB为大量人口提供护理， 结核病的高风险;它为80多个外展诊所提供服务，其中许多在德克萨斯州农村; 正在对医学教育课程进行重大改革， 强调健康维护和患者教育， 结核病课程可以很容易地交织在一起。

The purpose of this proposal is to improve tuberculosis (TB) education for students and residents at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) School of medicine and for health professionals at outreach sites, including state correctional facilities, clinics in rural Texas, and the Galveston community. Currently, coverage of TB in the medical school curriculum is limited, no efforts are made to coordinate this teaching, and some important aspects of the disease are not sufficiently emphasized. Moreover, UTMB offers no TB educational programs to professionals off-campus. Many learning experiences are planned to increase the proficiency of health professionals in diagnosing, managing, controlling, and preventing TB. The project should have a long-lasting and far-reaching impact, contributing to national and state public health efforts to control TB and facilitating the national goal of TB elimination. The specific aims of the project are: 1. Develop a high quality model curriculum for medical students and house staff, with applications for students in other health-related fields, that addresses the principles and practice of prevention, diagnosis, management, and control of TB and is responsive to the cultural and social issues associated with the disease. This will be accomplished by integrating TB-related lectures, case presentations, computer-based interactive learning exercises, audiovisual materials, and written self-instructional materials into the curriculum. 2. Adapt and disseminate the student curriculum to university and community health professionals and lay audiences through instruction and discussion at professional meetings and in outreach programs, including the production of interactive videos for dissemination of information about TB to sites in rural Texas. 3. Develop and implement a coordinated, interdepartmental approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with TB and UTMB through the institutional continuous process improvement mechanism. A multidisciplinary team, lead by the Principal Investigator, will adapt a model TB control program (previously developed by a co- investigator) to UTMB hospitals and facilitate its implementation at UTMB. All aspects of the proposed project will be carefully evaluated and modified as needed to enhance their effectiveness, and the information will be shared with other institutions. The implementation of a model TB curriculum at UTMB has several advantages. Educational interventions will be developed by a multidisciplinary team, strongly committed to the control of TB. The curricular changes proposed for the medical school will reach a large audience, 36% of whom belong to a minority group. UTMB provides care to a large population of persons at high risk for TB; it serves over 80 outreach clinics, many in rural Texas; and it is implementing major reforms in its medical education curriculum, emphasizing health maintenance and patient education, into which the model TB curriculum can easily be interwoven.