TUBERCULOSIS ACADEMIC AWARD

这项建议的目的是改善结核病(TB)教育， 德克萨斯大学医学部的学生和住院医生 加尔维斯顿(UTMB)医学院和卫生专业人员 外展地点，包括州立惩教设施、农村诊所 德克萨斯州和加尔维斯顿社区。目前，结核病的覆盖面 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都不是 得到了充分重视。此外，UTMB没有提供结核病教育计划 给校外的专业人士。许多学习经验被计划用来 提高卫生专业人员在诊断、管理、 控制和预防结核病。项目应该有一个长期和持久的 影响深远，为国家和州公共卫生做出贡献 努力控制结核病，促进实现消除结核病的国家目标。 项目的具体目标是：1.开发高质量的模型 为医科学生和家庭工作人员开设的课程，包括申请 其他与健康相关领域的学生，这涉及到原则和 结核病和IS的预防、诊断、管理和控制实践 应对与该疾病有关的文化和社会问题。 这将通过整合结核病相关讲座、案例来实现 演示、基于计算机的交互式学习练习、视听 教材，以及书面的自学材料纳入课程。 2.将学生课程改编并传播到大学和 社区卫生专业人员和非专业受众通过指导和 在专业会议和外联方案中进行讨论，包括 制作互动录影带，以传播有关结核病的资讯 到德克萨斯州农村的地点。3.制定和实施协调一致的、 跨部门的方法来诊断和管理的病人 通过机构的持续进程改进结核病和UTMB 机制。一个由首席调查员领导的多学科小组， 将改编一个结核病控制程序模型(以前由一家 调查员)向UTMB医院提供援助，并协助在UTMB执行这项工作。 将仔细评估拟议项目的所有方面，并 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好处。 教育干预将由一个多学科团队开发， 坚定致力于控制结核病。建议的课程改革 因为医学院将会接触到大量的观众，其中36%属于 少数群体。UTMB为大量人口提供护理， 结核病的高风险；它为80多家外展诊所提供服务，其中许多位于德克萨斯州的农村； 它正在对其医学教育课程进行重大改革， 强调健康维护和患者教育，其中的模式 结核病课程很容易相互交织在一起。

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.